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

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

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

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper.
Charles Peguy

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
Uwe Boll

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

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
Robert Fitzgerald

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

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
Charles Olson

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

I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
Dan Castellaneta

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
Peter O'Toole

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
John B. S. Haldane

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 wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.
Meg White

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
George Herman

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
Dan Castellaneta

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

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

One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
Dan Castellaneta