#epics

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#bronze #define #entire #epics #humanity

I am associated with techno epics. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#associated #epics #i #i am #techno

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#age #book #entirely #epics #found

If we think of the novel and the epic...The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#ennobling-versus-degenerating #epics-versus-novels #men

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#epics #first #intended #literary #meant

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. ↗

— Gig Young

#epics #people #snoring #specialties #spectacular

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#fantasy #literary-criticism #metaphors #tolkien #writing

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#am #big #blood #diamond #ed

If you want something done, you'll have to dream it yourself. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

#desktopepics #quotes #dreams