Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
trying firsts steps
Trying is the first step toward failure.
leadership sports trying
Trying is the first step to failure
everybody experience trying
We were trying to get everybody out there to play and get them some experience for the playoffs.
trying paint offers
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
gates greek-poet hateful heart hides man speaks
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
judgment quick thou weak
Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in judgment weak
gay
I'm not gay, but I'll learn...
giving-up firsts succeed
If at first you don't succeed, give up.
looks want weirdo
I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu.
drug funny-simpsons fame
Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.
mean sunday hey
Hey, what's the big deal about going to some building every Sunday? I mean, isn't God everywhere?
children looks faces
When I look at the smiles on all the children's faces...I just know they're about to jab me with something.
alaska america
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!
grief fate men
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.