Quotes and Sayings About Firefly
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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
