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  • Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down. -- Daniel Johns
  • But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it. -- Santigold
  • I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night. -- Loreena McKennitt
  • September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terrorâ??s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eaglesâ?? wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 -- Aberjhani
  • At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will. -- Jack Kerouac
  • I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane. -- Lauren Weisberger
  • I love prayer candles, and I use them often. -- Marianne Williamson
  • If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. -- Margaret Fuller
  • You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. -- Bob Hope
  • I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home. -- Erin Heatherton
  • Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. -- Tim Vine
  • Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference. -- Anthea Turner
  • Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. -- Jane Porter
  • I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things. -- Joan Collins
  • I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off. -- Kellan Lutz
  • I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them. -- Jared Padalecki
  • I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it. -- Nicole Kidman
  • 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
  • I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had. -- Tamara Mellon
  • I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. -- Traci Bingham
  • I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms. -- Mary J. Blige
  • For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
  • I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions. -- Traci Bingham
  • I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives. -- Brit Marling
  • I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. -- Anne Lamott
  • 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
  • You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don't think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles - a shiny, shiny face. -- Tina Fey
  • When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn? -- Sandra Lee
  • Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out. -- Harry Styles
  • I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. -- Anne Lamott
  • I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill. -- Suki Waterhouse
  • One idea lights a thousand candles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • When all candles be out, all cats be grey. -- John Heywood
  • When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch
  • If you never saw the stars, candles were enough. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. -- William Shakespeare
  • my children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at ... -- Deborah Keenan
  • The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. -- Rumi
  • At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake. -- John Newcombe
  • We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. -- Lynn Schooler
  • It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake. -- Louie Giglio
  • A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor) -- Edgar Allan Poe
  • I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness. -- Joshua Harris
  • I found the candles"?atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine. -- Richelle Mead
  • Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  • There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles. -- Craig Ferguson
  • I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home. -- Erin Heatherton
  • We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight. -- Luther Dixon
  • In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. -- Irwin Shaw
  • The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery. -- Maria Monk
  • I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music -- Greyson Chance
  • A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does. -- Mason Cooley
  • When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles. -- Csanad Szegedi
  • If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. -- Mark McCormack
  • Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends. -- Tom Baker
  • I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see! -- Jeremy Renner
  • For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . -- Tennessee Williams
  • How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. -- Jean Ingelow
  • O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet. -- William Butler Yeats
  • The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out. -- Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one -- Virginia Woolf
  • I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. -- King Tuff
  • Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • I think a bad place for a fire would be the factory where they make those trick candles. -- Demetri Martin
  • We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. -- Robert H. Shaffer
  • Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes. -- Anthony Liccione
  • One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake. -- Bette Davis
  • A candle that smells like asshole would be an instant hit in prison. Do they make sex-scented candles now? -- Jarod Kintz
  • If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
  • When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!.. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. -- Liam Neeson
  • The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others. -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on. -- Ana Monnar
  • Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. -- William Shakespeare
  • Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special. -- John Spence
  • I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. -- Anne Rice
  • Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire. -- Rumi
  • I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time. -- Erica Brown
  • A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least. -- Dalai Lama
  • I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles. -- Mary Balogh
  • how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world. -- Irving Layton
  • I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.' -- Jody Watley
  • They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. -- George Carlin
  • Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, Iâ??ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet -- Lee Donghae
  • The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles. -- C.P. Cavafy
  • When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. -- Philip Pullman
  • My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation. -- Jessie Sampter
  • My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark. -- Suzy Kassem
  • It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. -- Henry James
  • Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. -- Faina Ranevskaya
  • I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive. -- Sandra Lee
  • Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody's drunk in the kitchen. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes. -- Susan Patron
  • Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops. -- William Shakespeare
  • Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher. -- Patti Davis
  • Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. -- Tennessee Williams
  • You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them. -- Joseph Kanon
  • I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. -- Anais Nin
  • Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat -- Anne Rice
  • Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too. -- Meryl Streep
  • Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles! -- Mark Batterson
  • ...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' -- Carlos Santana
  • Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out the candles on her cake, it exploded. -- Craig Kilborn
  • For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. -- Herman Melville
  • There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful. -- Rufus Wainwright
  • Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose. -- William Butler Yeats
  • I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours. -- Jill Soloway
  • Tonight I light the candles for all the souls who were merely pawns in the game we call rules of engagement and everything remains as it never was -- Nynke Visser
  • There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us big things! Small candles too challenge the huge darknesses! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. -- Tim Murphy
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