Epical Quotes & Sayings

The fact that the amount of missing information depends on the area of the boundary of the trapped region is a very important clue. — Lee Smolin

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth. — Victor Hugo

Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws. — Simone De Beauvoir

It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else. — A. Manette Ansay

The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism. — Hedda Hopper

It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Baker Street or to Bagdad. But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo! it is Victoria. No, take your books of mere poetry and prose; let me read a time table, with tears of pride. Take your Byron, who commemorates the defeats of man; give me Bradshaw, who commemorates his victories. Give me Bradshaw, I say! — G.K. Chesterton

Did you face the bitch yourself or did you get it from Narian?"
I smiled at his word choice. "I approached Rava myself. I've been known to face down a bitch or two. — Cayla Kluver

People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous," Will said. "There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories. — Libba Bray

I don't want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is. — L.M. Montgomery

We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees. — Arshile Gorky

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable. — Jerry Coleman

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought. — Claude Bernard

Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! — Edgar Allan Poe