Quotes About Blowing Out Candles

#1. 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

#2. Birds-eye view
Awake the stars 'cause they're all around you
Wide eyes will always brighten the blue
Chase your dreams
And remember me, sweet bravery
'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high
So bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind
And take to the sky

Owl City

#3. A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

Paul Simon

#4. The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out.

Donna Lynn Hope

#5. It was only wishful thinking. And whether wishes were made by blowing out birthday candles or on a shooting star, they never came true.

Jessica Sorensen

#6. Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.

Lemony Snicket

#7. She gave him books of poetry: Wordsworth, Whitman, all the W's. When she'd ask him how he liked them, he would say, "Fine. I'm on page ... " and then he would tell her what page he was on and how many pages he'd accomplished that day.

Lorrie Moore

#8. If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

Sam Mendes

#9. I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.

Dweezil Zappa

#10. It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

Daniel Kahneman

#12. It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.

Ester Dean

#13. When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Bob Edwards

#14. Soon college would be out, I would join the ranks of the martriculated, and the real world would steal me away for one of their own.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#16. They always gives me bath salts," complained Nobby. "And bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?

Terry Pratchett

#17. Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens.

Bram Stoker

#18. I could think back to my encounters with rules and regulations that didn't seem to make much sense to me, and have empathy for my children's frustrations. I understood as a very young boy that to blindly follow rules just because they're rules is to lose control over your whole life.

Wayne W. Dyer

#19. I don't like the whole blowing the candles out ritual ... blowing their germs all over the cake. If I want to catch something on my birthday. I don't want it to be from the cake. If you know what I'm saying ...

Craig Ferguson