Homer Quotes

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

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• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Song
  • Me
  • Wanted

• After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Weird
  • Situation
  • Choice

• Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • People
  • Small
  • Church

• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Science
  • Way

• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Territory
  • Taxi
  • Canoe

• After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Comedy

• Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Pain
  • Moments

• Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Fear
  • Evil

• In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• Heal me, oh Lord, I will be healed. Save me, oh Lord, I will be saved. Bless me, oh Lord, I will be blessed. Free me, oh Lord, I will be free

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Free
  • Blessed
  • Lord

• What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Courage

• Thy friendship makes us fresh.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Real
  • Friends

• I was bulimic for a really long time and I self-harmed as well. I eventually went to a GP and I had an irregular heartbeat that they thought might have come from the bulimia. I had to go to hospital to take a lot of tests, to check my heart was working properly. It was such a low point for me and I was so scared that I was like, ‘I want to get better. I want to change now.’ Then I began to see a therapist and started taking medication, and I think a combination of those things, with lots of other elements, started helping me get better.

  

  Olly Alexander Years & Years
  • Long Time
  • Bulimic
  • Self-harmed

• We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • Money
  • King

• The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

  

  Ardant du Picq
  • Battle
  • Use
  • Instruments

• To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.

  

  Homer
  • Blessing
  • Divisions
  • Relieve