144 Epic Quotes for You to Enjoy

'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places. Marlon Wayans

Crazy Reality Lost Franchise Way Scary Scary Movie Date Disaster Just Movie Wanted Places Epic Turned Grounded Film

The first arrival of earthly life on another celestial body ranks as an epochal event not only for our generation, but in the history of our planet. Neil Armstrong was at the cusp of the Apollo programme. This was a collective technological effort of epic scale, but his is the one name sure to be remembered centuries hence. Martin Rees

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If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget. Max Brooks

War Hope World Thought Giant Written Budget Global Because Any Movie Story Epic Turning Requires World War

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on. Melissa Auf der Maur

Love Me Big Rock Epic Landscapes Turns

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy. Michael Portillo

Me Try Reading Before Teens Drawn Something Could Absorb Perhaps Contemporaries Were His Epic Might Fantasy Works Tolkien

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate. N. K. Jemisin

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack. N. K. Jemisin

Conservative Job Out Restore Perceived Tendency Whack Epic Fantasy

We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me. Nathan Myhrvold

Home Me Free Pay Spielberg More Like Steven Content Lot Than Movies Epic Next Even Satisfying Watch

'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. Neal Adams

Dark Batman Out Classic Rises Knight Epic Turns

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16. Neil Cross

Science Quality Book Writing Thought Finished Year Beginning Warrior Older Changed Kind Write Until Another Science Fiction End Same Eight Fiction Which Again Title Epic Radically Novels Start

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nature Me Confidence Science Will Tools Our Insight Operations Without Continue Methods End Breach Epic Barriers March

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home. Nigel Lythgoe

Home Me Proportions Like Became Always Idol American American Idol Epic

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. Nina Arianda

Love Queen All Things Songs Storytelling Epic Things

The Cape Epic is unpredictable. In South Africa, it's scorching hot one minute, then super-windy or rainy the next, so you have to ensure you're ready for anything. Nino Schurter

You South Africa Ensure One Minute Unpredictable Minute Hot Ready Scorching South Africa Anything Epic Cape Then Next Rainy

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad. Nino Schurter

Good Lesson Bad Directions Go Epic Cape

Winning the Absa Cape Epic was the base for the perfect season. It really spiced up the soup. Nino Schurter

Winning Perfect Soup Up Epic Cape Really Base Season

I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected. Patrick Rothfuss

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There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her? Per Petterson

Good Me Blame Matter Long First Slightly Would Kinds About Seems Both Like Reader Although Does Always Quarrel Expected Common Which Disjointed Storytelling Prefer Preferable Straight Epic Naturalistic Who Her

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. Peter Jackson

Love Particularly Genres Terrific Historical Epic Fantasy Two

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing. Raymond Queneau

In scale, 'Fortitude' is just as big as 'Game of Thrones.' It's equally as epic - it's just starting out. Richard Dormer

Game Big Scale Out Equally Just Epic Fortitude Game Of Thrones Starting

I wouldn't know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens. Richelle Mead

Character You Warrior Weak Write Know Read Female Female Character How Up Where Epic Fantasy Much Growing Growing Up

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