#candle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ↗

— Milton Berle

#edison #him #lot #owe #television

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

#candle #disappeared #failed #kidnapped #prison

When all candles be out, all cats be grey. ↗

— John Heywood

#cats #grey #out

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#candles #gently #heaven #high #how

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

#blow #cake #candle #get #getting

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

#both #burns #candle #ends #foes

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#excuse #i #late #poor #scribbling

Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man! ↗

— Nate Ruess

#around #biggest #biggest influence #booth #candles

A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #death