Epic Quotes - Page 9

• She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go. From the moment she'd first decided to become a mother, it had been an epic battle.

  Kristin Hannah

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2011). “Night Road”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.

  Rachel Caine

  Beautiful, Hurt, Laughing

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath”, p.81, Allison & Busby

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• I might have lost some skin, but I got kissed by a beautiful woman who was happy to see me. I gotta say that’s pretty epic in my book. Definitely not a worst-case day here.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Book, Skins

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• I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.

  Diana Pharaoh Francis

  Mistake, Eye, Flirting

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• Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"   "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"   "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Terrible, Testing

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• Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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• In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Writing, Naps

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• They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Doors, Dating

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• Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

  Brian Swimme

  Change, Simple, Collaboration

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• I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.

  Steve Saint

  Regret, Believe, Long

  Steve Saint (2010). “End of the Spear”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Laughing, Tragedy

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• I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's doubled. And it's not even harmonized, it's all the same note! And I'm like, "Oh, that sounds epic." I don't know, it's just one of those arbitrary taste things.

  Robin Pecknold

  Guy, Listening, Singing

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• Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Work, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.565, Рипол Классик

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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• [Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.

  Edward Forbes

  Character, Science, Preparation

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• We tried our best to buy Dhoni during IPL 1 but unfortunately failed to do so.

  Vijay Mallya

  Dhoni

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• Dhoni is the greatest captain of our country. His record is proof of that.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Country, Dhoni, Records

  "Dhoni the Greatest Indian Captain - Ganguly". www.espn.com. April 05, 2011.

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• He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

  Rahul Dravid

  Leader, Example, Equanimity

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• The way MS carry himself on and off the field, I have learnt a lot for him. I am happy being led by him. I learn a lot from him and I am enjoying every moment of it.

  Dwayne Bravo

  Ms Dhoni, Dhoni, Rope

  "I Am Learning the Ropes of Captaincy From MS Dhoni: Dwayne Bravo". archive.indianexpress.com. May 06, 2013.

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• Gas is getting so expensive I'm gonna ride a mexican to work.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Mexican, Gas

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• When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.

  Burt Reynolds

  Funny, Fighting, Mirrors

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• There's even one for your titties. I haven't done the boobs mask one yet-you just stick it on your tits, apparently. I have to try it. But I did the foot one and the hand one yesterday, and it makes my skin crazy. It's like I just had sex for four days.

  Courtney Love

  Sex, Crazy, Feet

  "Courtney Love’s 5 Best Beauty Quotes From Her ‘Into The Gloss’ Interview" By Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Intelligent, Names

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• The way Jacques Brel writes a story, getting into the character, bringing out all his faults and qualities in the same song.... Not that I could ever write in such an epic way, but it really is a different way to go about writing lyrics...and I find that quite inspiring.

  Zach Condon

  Song, Writing, Character

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