Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Karon

The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us--when we stop, we darken.

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.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

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

Adam Baldwin

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

Anne Sexton

I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

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

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

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.

Francoise Sagan

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.

Carol Leifer

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Charlie Crist

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

Brian Wilson

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

David Sedaris

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

Jandy Nelson

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

Brian May

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Bruce Springsteen

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

Brendan Fraser

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Bill Murray

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

Eckhart Tolle

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Eckhart Tolle

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Arthur Cayley

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

George William Russell

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Bill Gates

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

Blaise Pascal

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Tom Stoppard

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.