#wax

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.' ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#kings #many #said #sealing #ships

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#arousing #boy #chamber #day #dead

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. ↗

— Fay Wray

#admit #clutches #cover #created #deserted

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does. ↗

— Dean Martin

#does #hollywood #jimmy #jimmy stewart #museum

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery. ↗

— Maria Monk

#branch #business #candles #important #manufacture

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#cinderella #down #easily #fitted #foot

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#indignant #understand #wax #weep

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, that of the modeler from Anspach, who slowly squeezed the soul and the life out of his model in order to animate his painted waxwork and then, having finished his work of art, awaited nightfall to go and bury the corpse in the ditch at the city walls. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#murder #waxworks #age

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#another woman #basically #been #career #ever

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#again #america #certain #circumstances #climates