As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“The walls flickered in the candlelight. The room felt close and warm, like an underground sanctuary.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“In winter I get up at night, and dress by yellow candlelight, In summer, quite the other day, I have to go… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night. — Rachel Boston Copy Share Image
The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“Yet, when struck at a particular angle by a flicker of candlelight from the chandelier, its heart of wine-drenched velvet shone through.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The table was a pool of candlelight -- so bright that the rest of the room seemed almost black, with the faces… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I don't know how to be sexy on a date. Put up a camera and a wind machine, and I'll give you… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
“Come here into the candlelight. I’m not afraid to look at the dead. For when the dead come they have as much… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“When his flock thronged into the midnight service, there was wonder on every face at the newly hung greens and the softly… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Their wedding night was in all truth a thing of beauty: the splendor of the celebrations, the hushed intimacy of a private… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I like torture. Torture is photogenic. If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not. If… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Around three a.m. he feels a presence in the room. He sees, for the pulse of a moment, a figure at the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“Just before six, Bee pulled three wineglasses out of the cabinet and uncorked the bottle of white that Greg had selected for… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“He was mine, and I'd be damned if I was going to let some other woman have him. I would shove the… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.” — Oma Desala Copy Share Image
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Candlelight cast such a delicate beauty. It flickered with emotions and warmed one’s skin and soul.” — Cat Winters Copy Share Image
“The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.” — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“Whole worlds’ darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..” — Sarvesh Jain Copy Share Image
Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time. — Madi Diaz Copy Share Image
