Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Russell Lowell

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

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

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

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.

Felicia Hemans

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

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.

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."

William Friedkin

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

Will Ferrell

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Roberto Bolano

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Robertson Davies

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Walt Whitman

Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

Wilson Mizner

I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.

Walter Lippmann

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

Justin Amash

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

William Shenstone

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

Spike Jonze

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

James Altucher

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Epicurus

But the universe is infinite.

Richard Smalley

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Mother Teresa

To God there is nothing small. The moment we have given it to God, it becomes infinite.

Leo Tolstoy

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Joseph Murphy

Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal.

Douglas Adams

Ford? There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for 'Hamlet' they've worked out