Tapers Candles Quotes & Sayings

The walls were draped with banners covered with cabalistic signs, an abundance of owls of all kinds, scarabs and ibises, and Oriental divinities of uncertain origin. Near the rear wall was a dais, a proscenium of burning torches held up by rough logs, and in the background an altar with a triangular altarpiece and statuettes of Isis and Osiris. The room was ringed by an amphitheater of figures of Anubis, and there was a portrait of Cagliostro (it could hardly have been of anyone else, could it?), a gilded mummy in Cheops format, two five-armed candelabra, a gong suspended from two rampant snakes, on a podium a lectern covered by calico printed with hieroglyphics, and two crowns, two tripods, a little portable sarcophagus, a throne, a fake seventeenth-century fauteuil, four unmatched chairs suitable for a banquet with the sheriff of Nottingham, and candles, tapers, votive lights, all flickering very spiritually. — Umberto Eco

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. — Colin Wilson

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me. — Chief Joseph

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom. — Skylar Grey

It is the belief and not the god that counts. — Wallace Stevens

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in. — George Lopez

It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba — Gregory Maguire

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold. — Natalie Portman

I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi. — Suraj Sharma

In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal. — Okakura Kakuzo

I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much. — Sonny Barger

Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition as the great and perhaps ineradicable moral blot on the history of physics and the developments in modern physics that led to the atomic and hydrogen bombs. — John Fuegi

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so. — Daniel Taylor

Just because one of your films does well at the box office, that doesn't make you a good person. It doesn't make you strong, smart, or secure, either. — Tina Majorino

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them. — Daniel Kehlmann