Homer Quotes

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Think
  • Running
  • Sleep

• It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Eyes

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Man
  • Idea

• I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fear

• You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• It's funny because everyone says you sleep when baby sleeps or you take a nap when baby takes a nap. That's true when you have one. When you have two, that is not true.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • True
  • Funny
  • Sleep

• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Criticism

• Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Networks

• Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need for classified information.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Service
  • Information
  • Profound

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again!

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Night
  • Earth

• But no matter what safety steps we take or what security precautions we adopt, our risk of death is not approximately – but exactly – 100 percent. There is no margin of error on the statistic.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Death
  • Risk
  • Safety

• The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Death
  • Fall

• Alternatively, the Government proposes that law enforcement agencies 'develop protocols to address' concerns raised by cloud computing. Probably a good idea, but the Founders did not fight a revolution to gain the right to government agency protocols.

  

  John Roberts
  • Good
  • Law
  • Revolution

• My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.

  

  Jamelia
  • She
  • Daughter
  • Priority

• There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the space station.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Space

• Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Profound