Homer Quotes

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

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• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Like
  • Abraham Lincoln

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Theater

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Black
  • Everything
  • Ships

• Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Nice
  • Flower
  • Weed

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• Short cuts make long delays.

  

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

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parents

• I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Time
  • Long

• I hide my emotions mainly because you don't want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel worse, or because you don't want someone to know or see your fear. If someone like a sick kid or a burn victim sees your fear, they respond to how you respond. And if you show them it's terrible, they will get upset. It's something I've learned over the years.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Kids
  • Fear
  • Sick

• The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Evil
  • Teaching
  • Performance

• I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Mean
  • Old
  • Masters

• Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Situation
  • Ugly
  • Grace

• Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

  

  Homer
  • Evil
  • Prosper
  • Swift