Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

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.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

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

Jan Karon

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

Jim C. Hines

This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.

Jim C. Hines

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

Groucho Marx

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

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.

Dennis Prager

The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk

Dennis Prager

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Dennis Prager

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one

Dennis Prager

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years

Abdu'l Baha

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

Abdul Kalam

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Aaron Hill

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

Charles Caleb Colton

Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style.

Alan Jay Lerner

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Al Sharpton

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Caity Lotz

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

Catherynne M. Valente

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

David Hume

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.