Homer Quotes

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Homer

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• Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Time
  • Great
  • Dad

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
  • Evil
  • Broken
  • Habits

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Knows
  • Taste
  • Western

• My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Film
  • Regret
  • First

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Soul

• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Want
  • Design
  • Building

• I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friends

• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
  • Nature
  • Changes

• Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Write
  • Read

• Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Die
  • Broken

• Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Yeah
  • Detroit

• We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Work
  • Day
  • Things

• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Question

• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Unity
  • Limit
  • Nationalism

• I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Today

• The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.

  

  Berlie Doherty
  • Water
  • Road
  • Childhood

• I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.

  

  John Burnside
  • Great
  • American

• I love the story of a thing. I love a thing for what it means a thousand times more than for what it's worth.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Story
  • I Love
  • Means

• The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

  

  Homer
  • Sea
  • Gods
  • Grain