Epic Quotes - Page 4

Understand this: we are both tiny and massive. We are nothing more than molded clay given breath, but we are nothing less than divine self-portraits, huffing and puffing along the mountain ranges of epic narrative arcs prepared for us by the Infinite Word Himself.

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

Photography hankers after the condition of the neutral observer. But there can be no such things as a neutral observer. For something to be seen, it must be looked at by somebody, and any true and real depiction must be an account of the experience of that looking.

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

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

Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

Dhoni Is The Best Captain I Have Played Under

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

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

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

Dhoni is the greatest captain of our country. His record is proof of that.

I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique geniuses, and the constant fear that we’re witless frauds who are speeding toward epic failure.

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