Firefly Quotes - Page 4

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

  Ben Weaver

  Fog, Chaos, Halls

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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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• 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 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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• All of a sudden I was Joan [Mad Man] and they're going, "Oh, so she plays a badass in this." And I'm like, "Oh my god, I get to play badasses." Firefly was a little bit of that, but she started out as a mouse and then she turned into a dragon. But I never really had that opportunity. So all of a sudden people were like, "Oh, do you feel like you're being typecast?" I would say, "No, this is just opening the doors." No one thought I could do it and someone finally trusted me to do it.

  Christina Hendricks

  Badass, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Dark, Perception, Mind

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• Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

  Amy Lowell

  Romantic, Dark, Rivers

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.28, Rutgers University Press

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• 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

  Moving, Kids, Winter

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• People are attracted to your light because they want it for themselves. It's like fireflies. When we were kids in New York, we would visit my dad and catch fireflies because we were so attracted to their light. Put them in jars next to our bed, and then they'd die. Then we'd go out the next night and get another firefly. That's how people are.

  Karrine Steffans

  New York, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Regret, Memories, Mind

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• 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

  People, Bangs, Sides

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

  Abbey Lee Kershaw

  Night, Parks, Free Music

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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

  Stupid, Men, Light

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• The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime. If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special. But at night, the firefly glows with its own light source. The darkness brings out its most beautiful gift. That's an extraordinary talent for an ordinary-looking creature, isn't it?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Night, Thinking

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.14, Macmillan

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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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.

  Dharma Mittra

  Running, Yoga, Police

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