Candle Quotes - page 7

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)
The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish. View quote
Joe Perry
Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect. View quote
Cindy Williams
When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park? View quote
Ralph Marston
The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle. View quote
Thomas Fuller
With trembling hands, I made a tiny breach in the upper left hand corner... widening the hole a little, I inserted the candle and peered in... at first I could see nothing, the hot air escaping from the chamber causing the candle to flicker. Presently, details of the room emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues and gold – everywhere the glint of gold. View quote
Howard Carter
A precious place is Paradise and none may know its worth, But Eden ever longeth for the knicknacks of the earth.The angels grow quite wistful over worldly things below; They hear the hurdy-gurdies in the Candle Makers Row.They listen for the laughter from the antics of the earth; They lower pails from heaven's walls to catch the milk-maids mirth. View quote
Nathalia Crane
My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. View quote
Wallace Stevens
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Also, light a candle for me at the Russian or Greek Orthodox Church in Stroudsburg from time to time. It doesn't need to be during a liturgy, just whenever they are open. I am sure you can figure it out... View quote
Eric Frein
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as 'candle making industry threatened.' (Newt Gingrich)
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. View quote
Steven Wright
If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. View quote
William Penn
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle. View quote
Carrie Underwood
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective. View quote
Laura Esquivel
Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love, too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I prize every candle in the darkness of the universe, even if it is not a supernova of blinding illumination. View quote
Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)
my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light. (Roald Dahl)
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think. View quote
Chris Cornell
I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is lost in light. View quote
Sara Teasdale
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. View quote
Bill Bryson
There would be a dreadful outcry if anyone suggested obliterating, say, the Tower of London, and quite rightly so; yet a unique and wonderful species of animal which has taken hundreds of thousands of years to develop to the stage we see today, can be snuffed out like a candle without more than a handful of people raising a finger or a voice in protest. View quote
Gerald Durrell