Famous Quotes & Sayings

Demian Bichir

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Orlando Bloom

I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

Rick Carlisle

We were sloppy at times offensively. Our turnovers have to come down. Twenty-nine is an epic number.

Cary Fukunaga

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it...

Edward M. Lerner

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

Dean Koontz

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

Michael Shermer

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.

Michael Wood

In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

Laini Taylor

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

Mortimer Adler

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Matthew Arnold

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Manly Hall

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

Ludwig Wittgenstein

This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Jacques Derrida

Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

Richard Daley

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Cynthia Ozick

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

Comte de Lautreamont

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Norman MacCaig

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Roger McGough

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Douglas Coupland

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?