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All men begin their learning with Homer.
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
You always dream about your first homer and your 100th.
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
I have always been a huge sports fan, but more of the pedestrian and 'homer' sort.
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.
I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.
I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.
I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.
The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.
My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
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.
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.
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.
Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.
The first glimpse that we have of the notions which the Greeks possessed of the shape and the inhabitants of the earth is afforded by the poems passing under the name of Homer.
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.
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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.
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
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.
Just before the opening of the 20th century, the Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, are born into great privilege on the Upper East Side of New York, in a mansion overlooking Central Park.
Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius, they are meant to be read out loud and loved.
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.
With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.