Homerus Quotes

#1. Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]

Lucretius

#2. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace

#3. I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.

Craig McDean

#4. Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than we know.

William Wordsworth

#5. Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.

Jensen Ackles

#7. Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?"
"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.

J.D. Robb

#8. Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.

David Edelstein

#9. Even the spate of clearly well-intentioned films about AIDS only added to the certainty that gay characters wind up dead by the final reel. After all, in the movies, no one lives with HIV ... perhaps the ultimate stigmatization.

Robert Dunbar

#10. All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

Tony Judt

#11. The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Jim Cymbala

#12. Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Jacques Barzun

#13. Obsessions turn people off.

Grover Norquist

#14. My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Ishmael Beah