Quotes About Wax

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold.

You think I'm a doll, don't you? You think I'm cute and made of poured wax and you'll stay as long as I stay.

Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to sustain the wick.

It is an honor to join the ranks of sports icons such as Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods by being immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Washington, D.C.

Nothing could hide the tiredness of their spirit and their flesh; time had eroded their godhead. They posed and moved as charmingly as he remembered but they were like wax fruit, they could not lubricate his glands.

Chinese wrote messages on fine silk, which was then scrunched into a tiny ball and covered in wax. The messenger would then swallow the ball of wax.

In its gilded pagoda, the band was playing. The conductor – a small bent man with a waxed moustache – looked as if he were whipping up a pudding with his baton.

Mi s-a facut inima ca ceara si se topeste înlauntrul meu." (Psalm XXII)

But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.

Delivering the speech was a surreal experience. The delegates sat silent, almost frozen in place. It was like speaking to a wax museum.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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

A rule is like a mold; you pour in the wax, and when it is pressed, it comes out, and the mold is left behind.

Bee Propolis Fights Infection Propolis possesses a multitude of pharmacological activities. It's created by the bees by mixing a resinous sap from trees with wax back at the hive. Bees use it as a kind of glue or general-purpose sealer—they coat the hive with propolis in much the same way we use paint and caulking

with the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Black are the horses.The horseshoes are black.On the dark capes glistenstains of ink and of wax.Their skulls are leaden,which is why they don't weep.With their patent leather soulsthey come down the street.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

Doctor Prunesquallor was running a long tapering finger up and down a stalactite of wax and smiling horribly.

burnt stubs of candles were stuck to the floor. The candles formed a circle. Nothing appeared to have been taken but the cabinet in which Marepool III was displayed had been broken and the head had been handled. Some candle wax and fragments of mistletoe adhered to it.

She assumes," Wax said, "that our detective style isn't normally the punchy-punchy, stabby-stabby type." "To be fair," Wayne said, "it's usually a more shooty-shooty, whacky-whacky type.

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.