Epic Quotes - Page 2

• It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

  Ajay Naidu

  Responsibility, Important, Stories

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• Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.298, Mango Media Inc.

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• Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Drama, Cutting, Hygiene

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• The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Style, Matter, Tradition

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• The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Firsts, Recitation, Meant To Be

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• My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

  Laurie Anderson

  Dream, Writing, Poetry

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• You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Knowing, Way, Hell

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• With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Determination, Men, Different

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• Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Epic Poems, Middle

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• Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.

  Hart Crane

  Mean, Bridges, Doubt

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• I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Rocks, Landscape, Bigs

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• The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  World, Artistic, Sometimes

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• I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, Queens, Book

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• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  Beau Bridges

  Native American, Film, Tales

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Attitude, Said, Symbolic

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• 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

  Singing, Identity, Stories

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• There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Romance, Important, Literature

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• He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Men, Order, World

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• That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Needs, Invention, Has Beens

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• I am associated with techno epics.

  Trevor Horn

  Horny, Techno

  "Horn of plenty". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2004.

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• The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Successful, May, Spirit

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• Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

  William Shatner

  Aliens, Computer, Film

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• The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, Years

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• I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Government, Our Generation

  "Ted Cruz: Cuban Ivy League Tea Partier for Senate" by Caroline May, dailycaller.com. June 06, 2011.

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• There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Song, Writing

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