Quotes About Scented Candles

#1. When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone

Bonnie Gillespie

#2. This isn't lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love's a dictator.

David Mitchell

#3. Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort of way. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax.p28

Augusten Burroughs

#4. I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.

Mary Page Keller

#5. Never underestimate the power of a scented candle! declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.
Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia!

Alice Pung

#6. 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

#7. When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference.

Leila Aboulela

#8. With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries
seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Ariel Gore

#9. Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man ... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. It is one thing to speak of embracing the new, the fresh, the strange. It is another to feel that one is an insect, crawling across a page of the Encyclopedia Britannica, knowing only that something vast is passing by beneath, all without your sensing more than a yawning vacancy.

Gregory Benford

#11. Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, 'Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made." Vik fought to keep his lips from twitching.

S.J. Kincaid

#12. The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

John Marsden

#13. When I'm trying a new form- trying to do something I'm not used to doing, which was true of the novel.

Lydia Davis

#14. There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.

Craig Ferguson

#15. By collecting things in one spot, you can also compare items that are similar in design, making it easier to decide whether you want to keep them.

Marie Kondo

#16. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax

Augusten Burroughs