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.

Felicia Hemans

Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?

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."

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

Peter Frampton

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?

James Russell Lowell

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

James Russell Lowell

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

Stephen King

Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.

Sarah Dessen

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

Joss Whedon

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

Joss Whedon

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Joss Whedon

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Joss Whedon

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

Joss Whedon

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

Joss Whedon

When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don’t think the show is off the air. I don’t think there’s a show; I think that’s what the world is like. … The story is our lives.

Joss Whedon

We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career.

Joss Whedon

Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

Joss Whedon

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.

Joss Whedon

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain’t comin’ back Burn the land and boil the sea You can’t take the sky from me There’s no place I can be Since I found Serenity But you can’t take the sky from me…

Joss Whedon

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Joss Whedon

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

Sean Maher

But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.

Summer Glau

I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.