Candle Quotes - Page 23

• How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Beautiful, Prayer, Heart

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• Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Cake, Age, Cost

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• All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

  Margaret Thatcher

  Father, Reading, Knees

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 604), 1995.

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• When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.

  Tristan Tzara

  Art, Cutting, Flames

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• I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Morning, Rain, Eye

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Light, Smell

  Bill Maher (2005). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.185, Rodale

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• I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

  Erica Brown

  Strong, Helping, Help Me

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Royal Wedding, Wind, Play

  Twitter post from Apr 29, 2011

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• Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face.

  James Simpson

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

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• The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Reading, Dining

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• We are fascinated by the club and the dancefloor; we are also fascinated by very nuanced sonic experiences, and somehow we are convinced that we can bring together these two contradictory forces and create some kind of sonic supernova. This would be the candle that has always been at the center of our project.

  Thomas Koner

  Together, Kind, Contradictory

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Moving, Home

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• As a book person and a movie person, I feel Jewish. My Dad was more Buddhist than anything, and on the West Coast I've often had the impression that Jews become Buddhists. I think, if anything, my religion has more to do with California consciousness, vibrations and energy. My wife isn't Jewish. There's nothing ceremonial going on at our house, I mean, occasionally a candle gets lit. But, definitely, my Judaism is an ongoing relationship, one that remains to be consummated.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Buddhist, Dad, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Work Out, Laughing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Clouds, Mountain

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• I had several moms who knew and didn't bring gifts for the baby and instead brought me food, candles, journals - the women who were like, "Actually, I know this is a tough time for you, and it's much more important that I show up here instead of to the baby shower."

  June Diane Raphael

  Mom, Baby, Tough Times

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.

  Quentin Crisp

  Girl, Drama, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sleep, Simple, Self

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then at a certain point in my teens I started to go to Catholic churches, by myself. Not because I wanted to be Catholic, but because I wanted to light a candle and say something like a prayer and just sit there. There was something I was missing or trying to reconnect with. But it was a secret at the time. I'd developed this cynical persona and the last thing I wanted to admit was that I was skulking around churches in my spare time.

  Ayana Mathis

  Prayer, Missing, Cynical

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Someone gave me Roman Candle from Cavity Search when it came out. I was just starting to do A&R in the record business, and I remember being in my Volvo 240 in Silverlake, which is every bit the cliche it sounds like, sitting in front of my house playing the songs over and over again. It was the punkest record I had heard in so long.

  Luke Wood

  Song, Long, House

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Real, Flower, Home

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beach, Home, Night

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

  David Mitchell

  Baby, Love Is, Lust

  David Mitchell (2014). “The Bone Clocks”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?

  John Wesley

  Children, Fire, Lakes

  John Wesley (1827). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.370

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