Homer Quotes

148 Homer quotes by 104 unique authors

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called… — Chaim Potok
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. — Catfish Hunter
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated — Johann Georg Hamann
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. — Edward Said
It's ironic how I drop some 'DOUGH' (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons. — Wale
The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to… — Erich Auerbach
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a… — Ambrose Bierce
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner
Those oft are stratagems which errors seem Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream; — Alexander Pope
When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and… — Janet Morris
Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread — Thomas Seward
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all… — William Faulkner
Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them. — Cass Sunstein
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante,… — William Strunk, Jr.
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told… — Marchette Chute
I remembered something. There's a man. He is bald and wears a short sleeve shirt. And somehow, he is important to me... I think his… — Jack O'Neill
Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods. — Horace
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that… — Francis Quarles
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into… — John Irving
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.… — Franz Liszt

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