Firefly famous quotes
03-17-2025
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Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.
-- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson -
I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
-- Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.
-- Amy Lowell -
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.
-- Ben Weaver -
Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb.
-- Conrad Aiken -
Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.
-- Dayton Ward -
This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.
-- Dharma Mittra -
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of his nose and climbed up from there to tickle into his teardrop ducts, so in his moss green pupils, curious, insistent, accusing sparks of questions continued to light up and fade away like fireflies flitting about on summer nights.
-- Elif Safak -
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.
-- Fernand Braudel -
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.
-- Francoise Sagan -
Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.
-- James Russell Lowell -
The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.
-- James Russell Lowell -
I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.
-- James Thurber -
The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.
-- Jan Karon -
If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly
-- 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 -
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 -
If you can't do something smart, do something right.
-- Joss Whedon -
Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.
-- Joss Whedon -
Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?
-- Joss Whedon -
Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
-- Joss Whedon -
Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.
-- Leonard Bishop -
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
-- Leslie Easterbrook -
Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of gravity or just the lure of life, Made me want to leave my only home tonight. I'm just wondering how we know where we belong Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn Singing in between here and gone
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter -
The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.
-- Mason Jennings -
So you treat your love like a firefly, like it only gets to shine for a little while. Catch it in a mason jar, with holes in the top, and run like hell to show it off.
-- Miranda Lambert -
She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow known exactly what she'd needed to hear. When their eyes locked, she once again realized how special he was. And just for a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.
-- Og Mandino -
You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.
-- Patrick Rothfuss -
Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?
-- Peter Frampton -
The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
IsnÂ’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youÂ’re with some other ones ItÂ’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!
-- Rachel Field -
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.
-- Sarah Dessen -
But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.
-- Sean Maher -
After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.
-- 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.
-- Summer Glau -
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.
-- Susan Kay -
Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy.
-- Geoffrey Marcy -
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.
-- Ada Limon -
[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
-- Crowfoot -
Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.
-- Ron Pope
