Homer Quotes
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.
Robert Fitzgerald
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.
Robert Fitzgerald
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.
Simon Armitage
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.
Robert Redford
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
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.
Bobby Thomson
Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Uwe Boll
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
Robert Fitzgerald
I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
George Herman
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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!'
Matt Groening
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.
Chaim Potok
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
William Scott
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
Catfish Hunter
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.
Dan Castellaneta
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.
Robert Fitzgerald
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Lactantius
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Samuel Richardson
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.
Robert Fitzgerald
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Aldous Huxley