I did candles because I wanted a candle to put in my home. I couldn't find one I liked.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.

I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Who needs a candle snuffer? You have air to blow out a candle. I don't need a snuffer to put it out.

The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

I am, in fact, a candle salesperson's worst nightmare - or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.

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.'

You know what I love the smell of? Christmas trees and pine. I always have a pine candle even if it's not Christmas.

Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Put the kids in a cool bath, then get them to bed, then light a candle. Do whatever you need to do to ease your troubled mind.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.

Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?

I couldn't hold a candle to how adventurous Steve was. He found life intoxicating, and he was just in awe of every living creature.

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.

After our first week of filming 'Deadpool 2,' Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, 'To Firefist' on it.

My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you - I am totally over it.

The minute I enter my house or a hotel room on the road, wherever I am, the first thing I do is light a candle; that's my favourite thing.

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

One of my favourite scents in the world is the 'Brown' candle from Hotel Costes in Paris. It smells like naughty nights in corners of clubs.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

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.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

When I am home in L.A., I love to stop by a yoga class or Soul Cycle session. There is nothing like doing some cycling in the dark to club music and candle light.

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.

I am into the candle business, have a home store, The White Window, and interior designing is my primary occupation, though writing now seems to have become better known.

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

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.

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

I've met plenty of CMOs in life, and I always say that I've never met any that can hold a candle to rock stars, who I truly believe are the greatest brand managers in the world.

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'

My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

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