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Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.


Henri Rousseau

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It's a poore sport that's not worth the candle. [It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.]
GEORGE HERBERT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in h...
JOHN ADAMS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
NATASCHA MCELHONE Hand any four-year-old a fist full of crayons, and it is a very, very few who don't get busy wit...
CHRIS RASCHKA Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
EDGAR BERGEN Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY Late to bed and late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor and foolish.
RUPAM DAS a poor excuse of a priest, I'll tell you that.
BRIAN SCHIAVO Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a ca...
STEPHEN KING The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
ISADORA DUNCAN My two daughters are now engaged in a scribbling rivalry.
ANNIE DUKE I collect watches because I'm always late, and I need to know exactly how late I'm going to ...
COLIN HANKS For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA That was a big-time play by Henri.
FORREST LARSON What! must I hold a candle to my shames?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU In my intellect, I may divide [faith and works], just as in the candle I know there is both light an...
JOHN SELDEN In my intellect, I may divide (faith and works), just as in the candle I know there is both light an...
JOHN SELDEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to,...
TRIPLE H You have to excuse me - I have something in my eye,
GEORGE CANYON Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
Henri Becquerel
ANTOINE HENRI BECQUEREL My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour up...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
MARTY MEEHAN Taking on too much of other people's drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and contro...
JOSé N. HARRIS Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child la...
KAILASH SATYARTHI For I light my candle from their torches.
ROBERT BURTON Excuse me for excusing, I have been ignorant. Excuse me for offending, I have been selfish. Excuse m...
EPHDAN I could have defended a lot better. It was poor defense on my part.
CRYSTAL KEMP Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
HENRI ROUSSEAU When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
HENRI ROUSSEAU It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
HENRI ROUSSEAU We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.
HENRI ROUSSEAU The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us ev...
HENRI ROUSSEAU If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective.
HENRI ROUSSEAU Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour up...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what ...
DEYTH BANGER The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
HENRI ESTIENNE I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... It is not a religious holiday, per say, but it does involve the gods and goddesses of Hinduism. It i...
NAFEEZA HUSSAN Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
MICHAEL CAINE Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
CHARLES DICKENS I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I&#...
DANI SHAPIRO My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- i...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau - If birds confabulate or no
WILLIAM COWPER I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be w...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new d...
ARABELLA WEIR To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at ...
LORD BYRON It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or ...
GEORGE CARLIN I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanlines...
NARENDRA MODI I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies ...
SUN YAT-SEN When I first came to London, I loved hanging around in cafes, smoking, scribbling, dreaming. It was ...
PETER CAPALDI The itch of scribbling.
UNKNOWN Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Anybody with a shopping cart, ball of twine and pen and paper could do an IPO in this market, ... Pu...
BEN HOLMES I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always f...
CHER I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.
JAMES PATTERSON My darling,it is late and I am very tired of youth,love,and self-sacrafice.
BETTE DAVIS A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and pa...
SIMON VAN BOOY My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It g...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It giv...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
TOM PETTY I'm rushing it. When I rush it, my arm is late, and therefore the ball stays up.
ZACH DAY Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreame...
STEPHEN COLBERT Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I think there is an awful lot of technology for technology's sake. I have yet to be convinced by...
JOJO MOYES I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life… And that was my own fault.
GARY HOPKINS I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going we...
MARY OLIVER The insatiate itch of scribbling.
WILLIAM GIFFORD My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my frie...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have per...
AL SECKEL Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but t...
MOHAMMED NEGUIB Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but ...
MOHAMMED NEGUIB Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but t...
MOHAMMED NAGUIB My biggest problem, like most, is burning the candle on both ends.
DR. ERIC OLSON I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.
ELLEN HOLLMAN I am sorry for my actions. I have no excuse. I just hope to get the chance to clean up my life.
RICHARD DAVIS It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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HENRI NOUWEN The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
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HENRI MATISSE Creativity takes courage.
HENRI MATISSE I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the es...
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HENRI BERGSON Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
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HENRI MATISSE Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
HENRI QUEUILLE If youth knew; if age could.
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HENRI NOUWEN It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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HENRI MATISSE To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
HENRI NOUWEN There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
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HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
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HENRI AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
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HENRI NOUWEN In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...
HENRI MATISSE Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC • When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE