Lumen Quotes

#1. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
[Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]

Sallust

#2. ANGEL: I I I I
Am the Bird of America, the Bald Eagle,
Continental Principality,
LUMEN PHOSPHOR FLUOR CANDLE!

Tony Kushner

#3. In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen, in Thy light we shall see the light

Columbia University

#4. The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.

Francis Bacon

#5. Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.

Nick Kroll

#6. I am empty space, and I am the light that illuminates that space.

Joshua Gaylord

#7. Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.

Catherine Doherty

#8. Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Judy Sheindlin

#9. If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

George Duncan

#10. I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.

Frederick Lenz

#11. There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

Winona LaDuke

#13. odor like that of rotting meat permeated

C.S. Harris

#14. I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

Helena Christensen

#15. Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing

Guy Pearce