Homer Thompson quote: "We were in dire need of something like that, and it was an exciting thing for us. But as time went on, it just seemed like there was something there we were not getting full disclosure on."

It's definitely a disappointment, because we were all very enthused about it.
HOMER THOMPSON

I was always in support of the coach.
HOMER THOMPSON

We put ourselves in his hands.
HOMER THOMPSON

That was an issue settled.
HOMER THOMPSON

I never had had a basketball in my hand.
HOMER THOMPSON

It is not right to glory in the slain.
HOMER

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
HOMER

The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when nig...
HOMER

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...
HOMER

For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother
HOMER

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
HOMER

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
HOMER

Light is the task where many share the toil.
HOMER

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
HOMER

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
HOMER

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
HOMER

I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.
HOMER

How vain, without the merit, is the name.
HOMER

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.
HOMER

A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly.
HOMER

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,
Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then,...
HOMER

For too much rest becomes a pain.
HOMER

There will be killing till the score is paid.
HOMER

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
HOMER

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
HOMER

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
HOMER

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gen...
HOMER

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught th...
HOMER

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
HOMER

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
HOMER

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, ...
HOMER

The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.
HOMER

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
HOMER

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.
HOMER

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
HOMER

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their father...
HOMER

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man ...
HOMER

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
HOMER

Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
HOMER

It is not good to have a rule of many.
HOMER

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...
HOMER

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
HOMER

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from th...
HOMER

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
HOMER

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
HOMER

Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
HOMER

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
HOMER

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
HOMER

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
HOMER

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
HOMER

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
HOMER

Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
HOMER

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp con...
HOMER

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...
HOMER

…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—mag...
HOMER

Winged words.
HOMER

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince!...
HOMER

It is a wise child that knows his own father.
HOMER

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
HOMER

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
HOMER

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
HOMER

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
HOMER

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.
HOMER

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the...
HOMER

The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
HOMER

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor ...
HOMER

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the ...
HOMER

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a ho...
HOMER

Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they th...
HOMER

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.
HOMER

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You...
HOMER

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood ...
HOMER

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
HOMER

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee co...
HOMER

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, a...
HOMER

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
HOMER

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
HOMER

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
HOMER

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his de...
HOMER

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
HOMER

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HOMER

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when h...
HOMER

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
HOMER

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the sam...
HOMER

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HOMER

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, w...
HOMER

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and...
HOMER

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.
HOMER

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
HOMER

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
HOMER

Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
HOMER

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
HOMER

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. F...
HOMER

By their own follies they perished, the fools.
HOMER

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
HOMER

All men have need of the gods.
HOMER

A small rock holds back a great wave.
HOMER

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both...
HOMER

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has giv...
HOMER

Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselv...
HOMER

There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.
HOMER

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
HOMER

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
HOMER

Do not mourn the dead with the belly
HOMER

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
HOMER

And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
HOMER

All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious
HOMER

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told s...
HOMER

Far and near friends knew this house; for he whose home it was had much acquaintance in the world
HOMER

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
HOMER

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that s...
HOMER

No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he ...
HOMER

Hektor, argue me no agreements. I cannot forgive you.
As there are no trustworthy oaths between...
HOMER

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For al...
HOMER

But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, nev...
HOMER

Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do every...
HOMER

And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing ...
HOMER

We ask that (employees) take care of your personal business as needed. Should you require more time ...
HOMER

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across...
HOMER

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.
HOMER

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
HOMER

I'm satisfied. It's straight, ... But it's just so hot, and I'm just so frustrated.
HOMER

There is nothing nothing more nobler or more admirable than two people who see eye to eye keeping ho...
HOMER

Wisdom never lies
HOMER

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
HOMER

Achilles absent, was Achilles still
HOMER

A guest never forgets the host who had treated him kindly
HOMER

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you ...
HOMER

Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet ...
HOMER

Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
HOMER

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
HOMER

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than war
HOMER

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,
the wild wine
that sets the wisest man to sing
at ...
HOMER

He went off without a word along the shore of the sounding sea.
HOMER

For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and...
HOMER

They would eat its blossoms and stalks in the spring, ... And use its fiber to make rabbit nets, san...
HOMER

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured
HOMER

Too many kings can ruin an army
HOMER

But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of w...
HOMER

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
HOMER

[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals.
The sinews no longer hold the fle...
HOMER

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying togeth...
HOMER

down from his brow
she ran his curls
like thick hyacinth clusters
full of blooms
HOMER

Aries in his many fits knows no favorites.
HOMER

These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them,
or he can enjoy listening to storie...
HOMER

Immortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER

So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all....
HOMER

out of sight,out of mind
HOMER

Few sons are like their fathers--most are worse, few better.
HOMER

And empty words are evil.
HOMER

Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
HOMER

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.
HOMER

My name is Nobody.
HOMER

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say
that we devise their misery. But they
themsel...
HOMER

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their mis...
HOMER

Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death
HOMER

Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;
I have seen worse sights than this.
HOMER

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a t...
HOMER

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
HOMER

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive...
HOMER

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy ...
HOMER

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
HOMER

There was one on Kentucky Avenue that sunk so much that a lady couldn't even get out of her driveway...
HOMER

When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board,
HOMER

After the event, even a fool is wise
HOMER

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen but his country's cause
HOMER

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another
HOMER

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER

...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glit...
HOMER

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...
HOMER

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
HOMER

Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HOMER

I don't want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don't want to see th...
WINSLOW HOMER

Roads are just a suggestion, like pants.
HOMER SIMPSON

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
HOMER HICKAM

The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
WINSLOW HOMER

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to ...
HOMER HICKAM

I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by an...
WINSLOW HOMER

That's another way we can support the program.
CARL HOMER

The exponential costs of Medicaid are increasing at a rate they probably can't afford.
CARL HOMER

You can't play with one hand in this business at all. You have to be really focused.
CARL HOMER

At this time we're not prepared to devote the kind of resources needed to succeed. Not in the forese...
CARL HOMER

Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER

A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse.
HOMER HICKAM

Mmm... Organized Crime
HOMER SIMPSON

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?
HOMER SIMPSON

Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
WINSLOW HOMER

You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of o...
WINSLOW HOMER

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and...
HOMER SIMPSON

I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get th...
WINSLOW HOMER

It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to squeeze in 8 ...
HOMER SIMPSON

Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time &...
WINSLOW HOMER

Trying is the first step towards failure". - Homer Simpson
HOMER SIMPSON

Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?
HOMER SIMPSON

We were in dire need of something like that, and it was an exciting thing for us. But as time went on, it just seemed like there was something there we were not getting full disclosure on.

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We were in dire need of something like that, and it was an exciting thing for us. But as time went on, it just seemed like there was something there we were not getting full disclosure on.

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