Famous Persons With The Surname Luther
- Bill Luther, American politician
- Bobbi Sue Luther
- Charles Luther
- Frank Luther
- Hans Luther (15th century)
- Hans Luther, German politician and Chancellor of Germany
- Karl Theodor Robert Luther
- Martin Luther, German theologian and Augustinian monk who inspired and began the Protestant Reformation
- Martin Luther (diplomat), German diplomat from 1940-1945 and a Nazi party member
- Thomas Luther
- Robert Thomas Dietrich Luther (de), German scientist (chemistry, photography)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, persons and/or luther:
“The essence of the physicality of the most famous blonde in the world is a wholesome eroticism blurred a little round the edges by the fact she is not quite sure what eroticism is. This gives her her tentative luminosity and what makes her, somehow, always more like her own image in the mirror than she is like herself.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called “silent poetry,” and poetry “speaking painting.” The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)