Homer Quotes
For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
Quotes to Explore
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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It's good to be alive.
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
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You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure.
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I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.
