I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
“ Ingersoll is with Homer and Tully and Shakespeare and Burns .” — William Stewart Ross Copy Share Image
Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“If you truly hope to win her over, be as honest with yourself as with her.” — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half,… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me...… — Jack O'Neill Copy Share Image
Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's… — Mitchell Joachim Copy Share Image
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Now the twelfth canto of Book II is an almost literal translation from Tasso description in the Jerusalem Delivered of the island… — Janet Spens Copy Share Image
What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call… — Gwen Cooper 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
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps… — Raymond Queneau 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
“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
“The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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
“here is one other element of the apocalyptic tradition to be considered, namely transition. I said a minute ago that one of… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“In the humanist world following Erasmus, man is at the centre of the universe. Man becomes largely responsible for his own destiny,… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
