Homer Quotes
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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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.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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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.
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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.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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I do have a regular childhood.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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I cook. I walk. I go to the movies. I meditate.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
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It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.
