Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Karon

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

Adam Baldwin

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

Abbey Lee Kershaw

I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.

Alan Lightman

There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

Anne Sexton

I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

Henry David Thoreau

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

Francoise Sagan

I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

Fernand Braudel

Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. Nor is it only political history which benefits most, for every historical landscape - political, economic, social, even geographical - is illumined by the intermittent flare of the event.

Bobby Lee

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

Andrew Vachss

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.

Dante Alighieri

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

Edward Weston

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

Ellen Davis

Small retailers don't have that kind of a luxury. That said, smaller retailers usually have a better pulse on their stores.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

Joseph Conrad

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Marilyn Hacker

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

Paul Newman

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance