Illumnations Quotes

#1. Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Allen Ginsberg

#2. Let us hope ... that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Peter De Vries

#3. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Corinthians, 15:52

Phillip W. Simpson

#4. Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

Gary D. Schmidt

#5. It certainly was," Klaus agreed, not adding that he had known the word "superlative" since he was eleven. "I see that just about every evening," Hector said, "and it always impresses me. It always makes me hungry,

Lemony Snicket

#6. I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

Ice-T

#7. I wish I had some stock in a scrunchie company.

Hillary Clinton

#8. I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Jaromir Jagr

#9. The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

Nicholas Royle

#10. [T]he more technology develops the diffusion of information (and notably of images), the more it provides the means of masking the constructed meaning under the appearance of the given meaning.

Roland Barthes

#11. To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Ayn Rand

#12. (1) give me a project to keep me occupied so he could have Benny all to himself over Christmas

Rachel Cohn

#13. It is what we fear that happens to us.

Oscar Wilde

#14. The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.

Doug Aitken

#16. We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.

Bobbi Brown