I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do. — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. — Catfish Hunter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better. — Meg White Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them. — William Scott Copy Share Image
“There are no compacts between Lions and Men: and Wolves and lambs have no concord.- Homer” — Rick Royster Copy Share Image
“He must lay siege against Briseis' walls and conquer her. Love would be his sword and he would break all her chains.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine… — James A. McDougall Copy Share Image
“The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.” — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“He might have told Homer, then, that he loved him very much and that he needed something very active to occupy himself… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own… — Homer Copy Share Image
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Priam and Achilles meet in the very twilight of their lives. Their extinction is certain and there will be no reward for… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We have, then, three Books wholly and one partially written before, and two after, the Preface; and only one of the first… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
“My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed… — Plato Copy Share Image
“so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Precious are the last moments when you do not know they are the last.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things. — Lactantius Copy Share Image
