Epic One Liners Quotes

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away. ~ Cathy Guisewite

I like the idea of building this wandering, epic narrative in a form that people don't expect epic narratives to appear. ~ Lucas Neff

Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways! ~ Alisa Hope Wagner

Epic is a word we often hear overused these days.
Epic is Echoes or the guitar solo in Comfortably Numb.
THAT is Epic. ~ Sienna McQuillen

God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it ... ~ Steven Curtis Chapman

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. ~ Laurie Anderson

When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should write one-liners.' And I did. My first album is mostly one-liners. ~ Mike Birbiglia

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. ~ Ernest Renan

I'm like a toy to her, a toy that someone has promised her. Maybe not her favorite, but still hers. ~ Nicole Gulla

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything. ~ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Okay guys, this is epic! ~ Ben Shapiro

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. ~ E. O. Wilson

Epic fails are just dramatic pauses to build up intensity of epic awesomeness emerging. ~ Janna Cachola

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic. ~ Novalis

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. ~ Jandy Nelson

It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic. ~ Peter Van Inwagen

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"
an infinitely wider kind of epic. ~ Thomas Carlyle

Being on the edge is always worse than going through ~ Joseph Brown

I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off. ~ Geoff Johns

An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly. ~ Charlton Heston

I actually do think the history is so epic that it actually kind of writes itself. ~ David Talbot

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

There is a part of me that likes things that are epic, that's why I think a lot of my songs go to these soundscapes that are cinematic, because I really like the epic storytelling. ~ Josh Garrels

Work on nothing less than epic scale ~ Francis Ford Coppola

God, if my epic journey is ever made into a Hollywood film, please don't have an NRA redneck act as me. ~ Moses

It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend. ~ Cristina M. Sburlea

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic! ~ Ashley Madekwe

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home. ~ Nigel Lythgoe

'Temeraire' is a terrific meld of two genres that I particularly love - fantasy and historical epic. ~ Peter Jackson

Everybody lives an epic. ~ James Cook

Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic. ~ Evan Osnos

I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies. ~ Michael Douglas

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me. ~ Kenneth Branagh

I love that Sauron was too stupid to have a dragon or something guard mt doom. Epic fail, huh.... ~ Aaron Dennis

Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap. ~ Stephen King

My thoughts of you never do you justice. ~ Nicole Gulla

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. ~ Charles Baudelaire

You can't get any more epic than a lightsaber battle. ~ Sarah J. Maas

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema. ~ Alexander Payne

Our sense of calling should be like an unfolding epic adventure. ~ Christine Caine

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope. ~ Laird Barron

I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling. ~ Nina Arianda

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling. ~ Terry Hayes

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [ A New Hope 's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling. ~ James Berardinelli

I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black. ~ Olivia Wilde

What would bring about a revival of epic proportion? ~ Andy Stanley

After 'The Way Back,' which was so epic and so rich, it was like, 'What will I do now?' ~ Jim Sturgess

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required. ~ Richard Armour

Time is more a perception than a tether to the now. ~ Aaron-Michael Hall

The calibre of TV's changing. It's becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely. ~ Emilia Clarke

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history. ~ Edward M. Lerner

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly. ~ Kate Reardon

If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted. ~ John DeChancie

This epic masterpiece tells the world changing story of Jesus and inspires us to love and live for others just as He did. ~ Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live. ~ Chad Smith

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram. ~ Karl Kraus

There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning. ~ David Benioff

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue. ~ Roger Ebert

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!" ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. ~ E. O. Wilson

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. ~ Eli Roth

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry. ~ Caleb Deschanel

In steppe epic, a steed and a sister are your trustiest, most intelligent and indefatigable aid: the hero doesn't have to be heroic, but these do. ~ Bryn Hammond

In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades. ~ Danny Trejo

'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album. ~ Gerard Way

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on. ~ Melissa Auf Der Maur

This is absurd. This is awful. This isn't how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit. ~ Holly Black

I'm very conscious of trying to make something epic out of something small and ordinary. ~ Alice McDermott

Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material. ~ Sean Bean

A pair of legs engineered to defy the laws of physics and a mindset to master the most epic of splits. ~ Jean-Claude Van Damme

To be epic, all I'd need to do is to do epic shit. ~ Johnny B. Truant

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism. ~ Tansy Rayner Roberts

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story. ~ Bill Condon

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing. ~ David Whyte

And for the first time, Gus's tattoo makes sense. Because this ... everything I see ... everything I hear ... everything I feel ... it's epic. Gus. Rook. They do epic. ~ Kim Holden

There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama. ~ Stephanie Zacharek

I want to return to the epic idea of the grand, big Western, in the sense that 'The Searchers' was. ~ Ridley Scott

I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. ~ George R R Martin

We saw some resistance in the Wichita market until we partnered with EPIC. The increased awareness and information handed out regarding ethanol-enriched fuel made a huge difference in the public's perception. ~ Mike Hoffman

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is. ~ Sherman Alexie

The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect. ~ James Moore

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes. ~ Dianna Agron

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. ~ Donald Miller

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. ~ Mike McCready

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

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion? ~ Samuel Richardson

My life is a vast inconsequential epic. ~ Jack Kerouac

We are what ballads are written of, what bards sing of. We are epic, you and I. ~ Samantha Garman

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. ~ Dennis Lehane

The only subject fewer authentic Americans cared about than the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo was World Cup Soccer. America is an epic global battle with ruthless savages who seek our destruction, and liberals are feeling sorry for the terrorists. ~ Ann Coulter

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. ~ Brian A. McBride

It's a known fact that in certain contexts people's great strengths become their epic failings. ~ A.S.A Harrison

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end. ~ A. E. Douglass

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. ~ Jerry Saltz

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

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ~ Anatole Broyard

My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live! ~ Amy Lee

Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid. ~ Jeff Goodell

No wonder. Puerto Rican, Italian and Cuban –
the perfect ingredients for a hot, bossy, badass cocktail. ~ Kristen Ashley

Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional epic, and at the very moment of its hero's greatest military triumph, Homer diverts his focus from Achilles to the epic's two most important casualties, Patroklos and Hektor: it is to the consequences of their deaths, especially to the victor, that all action of the Iliad has been inexorably leading. ~ Caroline Alexander