
Ronan, about Blue
The Raven Cycle Series, The Dream Thieves (2013)
"You might as well ask—how can brandy burn?"
Juhani Aho. " When Father Brought Home the Lamp https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Stories_by_Foreign_Authors_(Scandinavian)/When_Father_Brought_Home_the_Lamp," Translated by R. Nisbet Bain. in: Stories by Foreign Authors–Scandinavian, Cassell Publishing Co. 1898.
Ronan, about Blue
The Raven Cycle Series, The Dream Thieves (2013)
Compare: "You can never plan the future by the past", Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol. iv. p. 55.
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
Jose Mourinho http://www.chelseafc.com/xxchelsea180706/index.html#/page/ArchiveNews/list_2210603_107
“I asked for a table and they bought me a lamp.”
Benítez describing transfer dealings by Valencia's sporting director Jesus Pitarch while he was coach at the club
We don't need to give away flags for our fans to wave (2012)
Context: And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.
On the "Pottery Barn Rule," The Colbert Report (16 May 2007)
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
Des pays où personne ne va jamais. Interview of February 1960 with Jean Guenot und Jacques d'Arribehaude.
Reported in Céline à Meudon : transcriptions des entretiens avec Jacques d'Arribehaude et Jean Guenot. Éditions Jean Guenot, 1995 ISBN 2-85405-058-4
“When zeal like incense burns, first the lamp of knowledge must be lighted.”
Heaven Taken By Storm