Quotes for All
In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren’t happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn’t exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn’t have existed without the openness of the platform. There’s a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at … Read more
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters
I don’t know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic – a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters. Ethan Hawke
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. Ernest Renan
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Ernest Hemingway
All bad writers are in love with the epic. Ernest Hemingway
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something. Enrico Fermi
So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I’m not caring about the people anymore. Emma Donoghue
The calibre of TV’s changing. It’s becoming much more epic. To rival film, definitely. Emilia Clarke
Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because … Read more