Epics Quotes

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

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' - Chris Evans

The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about. - William Scott

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world. - C.S. Lewis

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

The fact that the students work with local not-for-profits means they have a real customer with a real need who will use what the students deliver. It helps make EPICS work as a design program. - Ed Coyle

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. - Reed Hastings

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. - G. K. Chesterton

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. - Gig Young

I tried to write a more modern, edgier version of the big blockbuster novels I enjoyed reading as a teenager, and a lot of those were family epics with broad, sweeping themes. - Tilly Bagshawe