Firefly Quotes

• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Life, Change, Death

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• The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

  Mason Jennings

  Beautiful, Past, Darkness

  Song: Darkness Between the Fireflies, Album: Mason Jennings, 2002

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• His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Spirit, Sanguine

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4393, Delphi Classics

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• If you can't do something smart, do something right.

  Joss Whedon

  Smart, Serenity, Morality

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Shiny, let's be bad guys!

  Joss Whedon

  Guy, Bad Guys

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

  James Russell Lowell

  Pulse, Meadows, Comes And Goes

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.16

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• You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?

  Jubal Early

  Girl, Doe, Cargo

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• 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

  Dark, Light, Political

  Fernand Braudel (1995). “The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II”, p.901, Univ of California Press

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• Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

  Joss Whedon

  Lost, Okay, Angry

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• I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

  Thomas J. Grasso

  Katniss, Catching Fire, Want

  Last words, March 20, 1995.

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• 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

  Running, Shining, Littles

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• Working on Drive, a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on Firefly of course. He called me up and said I've got a part for you that you will love and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

  Nathan Fillion

  Fun, Writing, Character

  "Nathan Fillion Interview - WAITRESS". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 2, 2007.

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• You can't take the sky from me.

  Joss Whedon

  Freedom, Sky, Possibility

  "The Ballad of Serenity". Opening theme song by Joss Whedon for TV Series "Firefly", www.youtube.com. 2002-2003.

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• I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

  Joss Whedon

  Wind, Serenity, Free Spirit

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• 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.

  Joss Whedon

  Freedom, Land, Sky

  "The Ballad of Serenity". Song by Joss Whedon,

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• Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

  Joss Whedon

  Truth, Writing, Half

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

  Joss Whedon

  Serenity, Done, Impossible

  "Fictional character: Mal". Firefly (TV series), 2002 - 2003.

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• Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.

  Joss Whedon

  Fall, Home, Math

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• Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, Missing, Brain

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• That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

  Kristin Hannah

  Best Friend, Friends, Mother

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.273, Macmillan

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• I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.

  Jubal Early

  Thinking, Lions, Might

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• If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

  Joss Whedon

  Serenity, You Don't Know Me, Awake

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• 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

  Sea, Land, Sky

  "Firefly". Opening Theme song, www.imdb.com. 2002 - 2003.

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• 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

  Mother, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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