Homer Quotes

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Find
  • Loss
  • Moving On

• Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Straight

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Kind
  • Being
  • Radio

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• 'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Character
  • Amazing

• Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Love
  • Abundance

• I do have a regular childhood.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Childhood
  • Regular

• Short cuts make long delays.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Short
  • Delays

• A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• 'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Song
  • Kiss
  • Twilight

• I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Movies
  • Walk
  • Cook

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

  

  Clare Balding
  • Time
  • Words
  • Everyday

• Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Success
  • Enemy
  • Fight

• I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Thank You

• A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Interesting
  • Challenge
  • Design

• In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Earth
  • Hand
  • Progress

• The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

  

  Homer
  • Words
  • Fight
  • Battle