#candle

To light a candle is to cast a shadow. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#cast #light #shadow

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#buy #cake #candle #got #holder

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things. ↗

— Joan Collins

#cushions #dressing #dressing room #even #i

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#all things #birthday #born #candles #covered

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

#extinguishes #many #mind #much #natural

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#because #broke #candlelight #endure #i

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#candle #effect #enlarge #illustrate #love is

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. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#candle #christians #demonic #does #fail

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. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#certain #day #either #end #every

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