“I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that ‘it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.’”
― Al Seckel
“I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.”
― Alastair Campbell
“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.”
― Bear Grylls
“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.”
― Bill Bryson
“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.”
― Billy Graham
“You know what I love the smell of? Christmas trees and pine. I always have a pine candle even if it’s not Christmas.”
― Brooklyn Decker
“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.”
― Buddha
“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.”
― Carrie Underwood
“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.”
― Chris Cornell
“I always did have a kind of candle shining for Peter Green. I mean, he was my god.”
― Christine McVie
“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.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“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.”
― Cindy Williams
“I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author’s. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.”
― Cynthia Ozick
“I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle.”
― Dave Franco
“I read a book on candles and got curious. I followed it up by taking a course with famous London-based candle maker David Constable. And now these have become the passion of my life.”
― Dimple Kapadia
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
― Edith Wharton
“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!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I am, in fact, a candle salesperson’s worst nightmare – or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.”
― Emily Weiss
“I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.”
― Eric Andre
“I have way too many candles. There’s always a candle burning at home.”
― Erin Heatherton
“Man loves company – even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
― Georg C. Lichtenberg
“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.”
― George Carlin
“Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.”
― Geraldine Brooks
“Sure, jets are fast and economical, but, oh my, what fun we’ve lost and what leisure we’ve sacrificed in the race to efficiency. Somehow, stepping onto a plane and zooming across the United States in a matter of hours doesn’t hold a candle to the dear, old-fashioned train ride.”
― Ginger Rogers
“Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.”
― Henri Rousseau
“Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.”
― James Howell
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”
― James Keller
“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.”
― James Russell Lowell
“I’m a big candle guy.”
― Jayson Tatum
“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.”
― Jeffrey Combs
“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.’”
― Jerry Seinfeld
“I don’t hold any candle for drama versus comedy.”
― Jo Brand
“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.”
― Joe Perry
“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.”
― John F. Kennedy
“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.”
― Julian Dennison
“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.”
― Leah Remini
“Swedes celebrate Christmas Eve. Every Sunday leading up to Christmas, we light a candle, then make gingerbread and saffron buns.”
― Mabel
“Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.”
― Marilyn vos Savant
“I did candles because I wanted a candle to put in my home. I couldn’t find one I liked.”
― Matthew Williamson
“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.”
― Michael Ian Black
“The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.”
― Michael Leunig
“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.”
― Michelle Visage
“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”
― Milton Friedman
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.”
― Mitch Hedberg
“I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell – urggh!”
― Neil Morrissey
“There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I’ve never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.”
― Nicollette Sheridan
“The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who ‘disappeared’. That’s what the candle is for.”
― Peter Benenson
“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.”
― Poppy Delevingne
“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
“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.’”
― Richard Dean Anderson
“I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.”
― Ronda Rousey
“The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.”
― Russell Pearce
“Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.”
― Simone Biles
“When you’re young, you can burn the candle at both ends, and you’re fine.”
― Steve Lukather
“The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.”
― T. B. Joshua
“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.”
― Terri Irwin
“Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn’t have electricity, we’d be watching television by candle light?”
― Tommy Cooper
“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.”
― Toni Collette
“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!”
― Tracey Ullman
“I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I’m making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven’t seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty.”
― Twinkle Khanna
“To light a candle is to cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
“We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
― Wallace Stevens
“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”
― William Arthur Ward
“I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.”
― William Inge
“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.”
― William Penn
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
― William Shakespeare
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