Firefly Quotes - Page 4

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

  Felicia Hemans

  Blow, Orange, Myrtle

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• I think people look back on shows like "Firefly" or "Buffy," and they remember it with this glow about it of positive response, but if you look back... If Twitter had existed, there would have been a lot of negative tweeting about "Firefly."

  Jane Espenson

  Thinking, People, Negative

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I have a brand new favorite for a Disney animated feature coming out next Christmas called The Princess and the Frog. I'm Ray the singing Cajun firefly. New Orleans is my second hometown. I was a deckhand on a riverboat there when I was 18, so I have that Cajun accent down pat. Ray is a lovesick firefly who's near-sighted and falls in love with the Evening Star. Of course, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger will always be favorites of mine too.

  Jim Cummings

  Falling In Love, Stars, Princess

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• Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Dark, Forests

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• I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision.

  Ben Lerner

  Dream, Eye, Night

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

  Ben Lerner

  California, West Coast, Saws

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, Light, Different

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• [last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

  Crowfoot

  Sunset, Native American, Night

  "Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Book by ‎Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

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• People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, People, Culture

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Book, Writing

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Isn’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 you’re with some other ones It’s stranger still to find Your thought as thick as fireflies All shiny in your mind!

  Rachel Field

  Tired, Thinking, People

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• Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves for the several centuries we need to catch our breath. What is it that enables certain flowers to resemble nubile insects, or opossums to play dead, or female fireflies to change the code of their flashes in order to attract, and then eat, males of a different species?

  Lewis Thomas

  Truth, Lying, Real

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• 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

  Military, Giving, Fiction

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• Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

  Ben Weaver

  Fog, Chaos, Halls

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• Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with him to the very end. Firefly: Hmmph. No wonder he passed away. Mrs. Teasdale: I held him in my arms and kissed him. Firefly: Oh I see. Then, it was murder.

  Groucho Marx

  Husband, Arms, Passed Away

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• 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

  Mistake, Two, Evil

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• Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Trying, Fickle, Jars

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “Keys To The Repository: Blue Bloods”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

  Ray Bradbury

  Daughter, Eye, Son

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You are mine-you know you're mine!" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eye, Winning, Vines

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.271, e-artnow

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• Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.

  Roger Ebert

  Powerful, War, Emotional

  "Sentai Filmworks Bringing 'grave Of The Fireflies' Back To DVD" by Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

  Groucho Marx

  Money, War, Army

  "Fictional character: Rufus T. Firefly". "Duck Soup", www.imdb.com. 1933.

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• I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.

  Joss Whedon

  Regret, Animal, Guy

  "Can a failed TV show spawn a successful film?". www.today.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• 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.

  Stephen King

  Clouds, Monsters, Lightning

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.316, Anchor

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

  Peter Frampton

  Moon, Light, Sky

  Song: Baby, I Love Your Way, 1998

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