Chandeliers Quotes

• I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

  Jack Welch

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Light

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• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  Peter York

  Architecture, Jewellery

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• Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Darkness, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.4, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Dresses, Stills

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• It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

  Tennessee Williams

  Saying Goodbye, Mushrooms, Interesting

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• Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

  Harvey Mackay

  Rooms

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!

  Gaston Leroux

  Night, Singing

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• The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.

  Antal Szerb

  Garden, Disaster, Hung

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• Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

  Jim Bakker

  Apology, World, Crystals

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

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• I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers.

  Taylor Swift

  Nice, Writing, Cat

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• There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Mirrors, People

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• On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Cousin, Party, Clouds

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

  Billy Corgan

  Song, Writing, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting his pulse, that the duration of the oscillations was independent of the arc through which it moved, who could know that this discovery would eventually put it in our power, by means of the pendulum, to attain an accuracy in the measurement of time till then deemed impossible, and would enable the storm-tossed seaman in the most distant oceans to determine in what degree of longitude he was sailing?

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Time, Ocean, Mean

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.

  Marian Keyes

  Party, Shoes, Would Be

  "Marian Keyes: 'I thought I'd never be able to write again'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2013.

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• There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Character, Actors, Boring

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• Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Stupid, Firefly, Men

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• I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?

  Amanda Hocking

  Fire, Wings, People

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Cities, Forever, Useless

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.

  J. K. Rowling

  Past, Funny Harry Potter, Way

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• I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Cat, Challenges, Sailing

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Light, President

  "Huckabee throws a Mitt fit" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 21, 2011.

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, House, Black

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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