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

• 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 the bottom line is that I am still willing to die a painful public death, assuming my execution destroys the game of soccer (or - at the very least - convinces people to shut up about it).

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.

  

  John Mayer
  • Death

• Sleep is getting to be like gold.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Sleep
  • Gold

• You know I used to sit there and I'd go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you'd best believe I'm sleepin'.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Free

• At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in France and another two in England. From nothing at all, she had built an empire. Eleanor had it all. Her one weakness was the young man sleeping beside her.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Men
  • She
  • Age

• Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe

• Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Judging
  • Boss

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

  

  Homer
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Profound