Homer Quotes
Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
Homer
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
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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
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
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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
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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
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
Oliver Reed
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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
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
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I sleep for about four hours a night, or day really. I go to bed at, like, 9 A.M., sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again. I don't mind if that's not healthy.
Taylor Momsen
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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
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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
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
B. R. Hayden
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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
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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
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
Laura Prepon
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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
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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
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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
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A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She’s a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
Helen Gurley Brown
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We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
Martin Feldstein
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I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever.
Neymar
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
Agatha Christie
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Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death.
Homer
