Top 191 Epic Quotes

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

After ‘The Way Back,’ which was so epic and so rich, it was like, ‘What will I do now?’

Michael Jackson loved epic symbols. In his shows and his videos, he always destroyed or salvaged worlds; he was the hero of parables about street violence, sexual combat, war and natural disaster. It was always apocalypse or apotheosis now.

It’s kind of epic to see four women really be physically and mentally strong, in themselves and in their lives. That’s what ‘Widows’ is.

Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it.

I love period pieces. It’s where my skill sets lie, with the horseback riding, the sword fighting and the accents. I love that world, and I love working on those big, epic shows. That’s what I hope to find myself in, in the future.

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner’s contemporary retelling. If you bring it into today, we really feel that it has something very fresh to say now.

There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive – now RCA – which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

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

Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn’t easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn’t just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color – they calculated only a 14 percent chance they’d find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.

At the time of ‘The Epic,’ as a core band, we were all spending so much time apart making music for other people that by the time we got together – even though we grew up together and there’s a special connection we have – it was like a rare privilege to come together.

It’s a cliche to say this now, but to me, ‘The Sopranos’ is like Dickens. It’s able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.

Tolkien was influenced by South Africa when he was writing ‘Lord of the Rings.’ It’s really epic scenery.

At Epic, we succeed when developers succeed.

English writing tends to fall into two categories – the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there’s definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

If you want to do ‘Sword & Sandals’ movies, people think that means it equals ‘epic.’

In the name of ‘mutual assistance,’ the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

For me, there’s nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.

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.

It’s a Hollywood screenwriting notion that change comes because of one epic, soul-crushing event… What’s more common is that the slow decay of the nonevents of your life build up until you can’t take it anymore.

To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as ‘Lord of the Rings’ is an epic. But ‘The Hobbit’ isn’t an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it’s full of adventures and excitement, they’re on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.

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.

The scripts that I’ve been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

I would definitely say the last episode is as epic as probably any episode that ‘Once Upon a Time’ has ever done. I mean, it’s massive; it’s huge. It’s like taking the best of all seasons and jamming it into one – literally.

The Hendricks/Lawler fights, those were just epic. Both were non-stop. I couldn’t stop watching, and it was hard to look away. I watch those as a fan, and to see two guys fighting like that for 25 minutes is crazy.

I wrote a 20-page document, before I was ever hired, on exactly how the visuals of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ would be approached, how we’d look at creating a new type of space epic. That’s exactly what the movie is today – absolutely everybody has adhered to that original document.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in ‘New Moon,’ like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

‘The Black Parade’ is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.

When I was young, I associated playing tennis with being part of historic moments, being part of these epic battles and coming out victorious, having those trophy moments. That, for me, is what I saw and aspired to.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He’ll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

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

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

‘The Miracle Workers’ was the first time I’ve been on a big American TV set, so that felt very epic.

At the same time, it’s a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they’re shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead.

A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, ‘Boyhood’ shimmers with unforced reality. It shows how an ordinary life can be reflected in an extraordinary movie.

I suffer from bizarre dreams and epic nightmares.

‘Grey’s’ is just a machine. I wasn’t really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).

I always designed ‘Gravity Falls’ to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Evolution isn’t just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It’s an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

I’m inspired by the words: ‘electrifying’, ‘epic’, ‘minimalistic’, ‘transcendent’, ‘timeless’ and ‘rock n’ roll.’

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.

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

I thought it would be a funny concept to publish a book about stand-up comedy with Faber, the poetry publisher, and to apply to stand-up the same sort of weight of annotation that you would to a classic work of literature, an epic poem. I thought that would be funny.

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

In the heady days that followed the success of ‘Mahabharat,’ I was young, vain and didn’t care much about the story. But in the next two decades, I read a lot on the epic.

As a child I had a wild imagination; from the age of seven I’d sit and write epic stories.

The awesome thing about ‘Fortnite’ is it’s brought a huge volume of digital commerce to Epic.

‘Avengers’ was a great comic-book movie. ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ is a great epic.