Quotes on Epic

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

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.

Dhoni Is The Best Captain I Have Played Under

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.

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.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.