Roman Candle

Roman candle may refer to:

  • Roman Candle (album), a 1994 album by Elliott Smith
  • Roman Candle (band), band from Chapel Hill, NC
  • Roman candle (firework)
  • Roman Candles (film), a 1966 short film by John Waters

Famous quotes containing the words roman candle, roman and/or candle:

    “I remember when I was first assigned to jets. I said to the colonel, “Colonel, I joined this man’s air force to fly an airplane. But nobody’s gonna hitch me to no Roman candle.””
    —Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

    “The gale, it plies the saplings double,
    It blows so hard, ‘twill soon be gone:
    To-day the Roman and his trouble
    Are ashes under Uricon.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “We say God and the imagination are one . . .
    How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)