Homer Quotes

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'

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 forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.