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Homer Quotes (page 4)

[A historian] will more seriously deplore the loss of the Byzantine libraries, which were destroyed or scattered in the general confusion: one hundred and twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have disappeared; ten volumes might be purchased for a single ducat; and the same ignominious price, too high perhaps for a shelf of theology, included the whole works of Aristotle and Homer, the noblest productions of the sciences and literature of ancient Greece. Edward Gibbon
E. L. Doctorow quote: "I'm Homer, the blind brother."
I'm Homer, the blind brother. E. L. Doctorow
Matt Groening quote: "I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's..."
I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy.Homer Simpson Matt Groening
Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us. Henry Miller
Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' Matt Groening
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald quote: "What the translator - myself in particular - does is not..."
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing. Robert Fitzgerald
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. Robert Fitzgerald
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer. Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald quote: "I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was..."
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. Robert Fitzgerald
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. Robert Fitzgerald
Mark McGwire quote: "Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a..."
Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone. Mark McGwire
Catfish Hunter quote: "I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a..."
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. Catfish Hunter
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. Chaim Potok
Eric Davis quote: "You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is..."
You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself. Eric Davis

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