Quotes of: Homer Keyword

Homer Stokes: And so, we gonna hang us a negro!

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Homer, the aged poet: What is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn't endure?

Wings of Desire

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

The Sun Watches the Sun

Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milestone.

Mark McGwire

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

Lactantius

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Bobby Thomson

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

Edward Said

Quentin: [shooting off their last rocket] Look at it go, Homer. This one's gunna go for miles.

October Sky

[about Homer going to college] Jim Hickam: Yeah, on a science fiction scholarship, maybe.

October Sky

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Umberto Eco

An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

The Greek Way

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.

Cass McCombs

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Steven Pinker

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

Matt Groening

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

Robert Redford

I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.

Catfish Hunter

Homer: [to his dad] Sure Dr. Von Braun is a great scientist, but he isn't my hero.

October Sky

Homer: You know, it, uh, won't fly unless somebody pushes the button. It's yours, if you want it.

October Sky

Homer Stokes: These boys is not white! These boys is not white! Hell, they ain't even old timey!

O Brother, Where Art Thou?