Firefly Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Alan Lightman

#2. Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog. - Author: Ben Weaver

#3. I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.' - Author: Taran Killam

#4. Sharon exuded the brightness of a firefly, the confidence of a double-decker bus, the optimism of a hedgehog and the tact of a small thermonuclear missile. - Author: Kate Griffin

#5. Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright. - Author: Jane Espenson

#6. The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. - Author: James Russell Lowell

#7. I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this. - Author: Thomas J. Grasso

#8. I am but a firefly caught in his jar and when he looks at me, I can't help but glow. - Author: Kellie Elmore

#9. You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose. - Author: Franny Billingsley

#10. When a heart breaks, a firefly is born. - Author: Lauren Oliver

#11. 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. - Author: Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#12. If God can make a firefly's butt light up like a star, then anything is possible. Anything. - Author: Charles Martin

#13. Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don't push me, and I won't push you. Dong le ma? - Author: Joss Whedon

#14. Now there's us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but
it's ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is spare, intimate, mournful and indefatigable. - Author: Joss Whedon

#15. His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star. - Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

#16. 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? - Author: Jubal Early

#17. Joke:
What did the little firefly say to his friends when they played hide-and-seek?
Ready or not, here I glow! - Author: Heather Wolf

#18. It is impossible to grasp another human's inner world. But even in the darkness of the densest forest, there can always be the light of a firefly. - Author: Krupakar

#19. 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. - Author: Miranda Lambert

#20. 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. - Author: Anne Sexton

#21. Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine? - Author: Peter Frampton

#22. 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. - Author: Dayton Ward

#23. Girl, we need to get you on a study program, fast. You're not going to last a week around here if you can't keep up with the pop culture references. How about Lord of the Rings? Firefly? Doctor Horrible? No? Clearly we have a lot of work to do. - Author: Rachel Caine

#24. It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another.
Malcolm Reynolds - Author: Melodie Ramone

#25. Let love be like a firefly light, pure and alive. Not like candlelight that glows nonstop for a while and once it stops, it stops forever. - Author: Sajan Kc.

#26. 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! - Author: Adam Baldwin

#27. Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. - Author: James Russell Lowell

#28. The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies. - Author: Mason Jennings

#29. I'm a huge geek, so I love 'Stargate' and 'Firefly.' - Author: Cassie Steele

#30. I am a leaf on the wind - watch how I soar - Author: Joss Whedon

#31. She pulls away - and then I see why: she's holding out her palm as a landing place for a firefly. It's easy to forget it's there when it's not glowing, until all of a sudden it comes back and surprises you; it reminds you of grief. - Author: Adam Silvera

#32. Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles. - Author: Arthur Helps

#33. But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.' - Author: Sean Maher

#34. Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of frakkin' power!"
"Dude," Cruz said. "You shouldn't mix swears from different universes. - Author: Ernest Cline

#35. Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark. - Author: Leonard Bishop

#36. Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears. - Author: Joss Whedon

#37. If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly - Author: Jim C. Hines

#38. Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing. - Author: Joss Whedon

#39. I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again. - Author: Jewel Staite

#40. The firefly only shines when on the wing, So it is with us
when we stop, we darken. - Author: Jan Karon

#41. I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie. - Author: Nathan Fillion

#42. They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are."
"Well, good," I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be. - Author: Heather James

#43. It has come to me with a fight. It has come to me the hard way, through tears and fog and fear and chaos, and now has landed in the palm of my hand like a firefly. There now, I have had my vision. - Author: Shauna Niequist

#44. Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work, and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day. How's that? - Author: Joss Whedon

#45. With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West. - Author: Jay Kristoff

#46. 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. - Author: Leslie Easterbrook

#47. What is life? 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, CHIEF OF THE SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, 1890 - Author: Richard Louv

#48. I remember the first job I ever had was working on 'Firefly,' and I was talking to Joss Whedon, and he was asking if I was going to Comic-Con. He called me a loser for not going that first year. - Author: Michael McMillian

#49. Still leaning against the handrail, I studied the firefly. Neither I nor it made a move for a very long time. The wind continued sweeping past the two of us while the numberless leaves of the zelkova tree rustled in the darkness. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#50. Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved. - Author: Amy Lowell

#51. I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting. - Author: Summer Glau

#52. My wish is for you to be my firefly. After lockdown ends, we'll only see each other in moments, for short flickers of time. - Author: Nikki Godwin

#53. Why did a demon who possessed the savage strength of a werewolf also need such compelling beauty?
It was one of those philosophical questions that had no answer.
Like why Firefly had been canceled after just one season. - Author: Alexandra Ivy

#54. Shine, baby, shine, be graceful child of mine. Be like the firefly who glows no matter how the darkness grows. Shine, baby, shine - Author: Maryann Cusimano Love

#55. Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. - Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

#56. My fancies are fireflies Specks of living light twinkling in the dark. - Author: Rabindranath Tagore

#57. 'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show. - Author: Jewel Staite

#58. After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that. - Author: Summer Glau

#59. So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green. - Author: Augusten Burroughs

#60. (Kaylee) Tell me I'm pretty, Wash.
(Wash) Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.
(kaylee) Because I'm pretty?
(Wash) Because you're pretty. - Author: Brett Matthews

#61. You are the beautiful and elusive pinpoint of radiance that lit up the darkness and called me home. - Author: Sara Humphreys

#62. We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career. - Author: Joss Whedon

#63. I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute. - Author: Holly Black

#64. Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear. - Author: Joss Whedon

#65. Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar. - Author: Sandra Kring

#66. 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. - Author: Jim C. Hines

#67. Shipwreck? Snow Job? I know. Firefly. I sort of feel a connection to him. Can't explain it. - Author: Richard Castle

#68. Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? - Author: Felicia Hemans

#69. If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun. - Author: Kahlil Gibran

#70. 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." - Author: Jane Espenson

#71. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn. - Author: Joss Whedon

#72. Beautiful things never last. That's why fireflies flash. - Author: Ron Pope

#73. Over the years, it seems 'Firefly' has only gained momentum rather than lost it. I still get letters from people who watched the show - I get more 'Firefly' than 'Mad Men' letters. - Author: Christina Hendricks

#74. Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever. - Author: Kristin Hannah

#75. Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: That's not much.
Mal: It's enough
- from Firefly - Author: Joss Whedon

#76. But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit? Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars? - Author: Kahlil Gibran

#77. That's like saying Firefly's Mal was just Han Solo. He wasn't. - Author: Trent Jamieson

#78. I miss my girl already. See you soon firefly - Author: Nikki Godwin

#79. Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man. - Author: Joss Whedon

#80. I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music. - Author: Abbey Lee Kershaw

#81. Shiny, let's be bad guys! - Author: Joss Whedon

#82. 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. - Author: Ben Lerner

#83. When it was announced that I was going to be on 'Castle,' there were immediate messages on all the TV news sites from 'Firefly' fans hoping for a nod to the series - some encrypted business just for them! I can't promise that, but I can say that a few people out there might get a thrill. - Author: Gina Torres

#84. Stu stood nearby also, his camera flash spastic and incessant, like the light of a caffeinated firefly. - Author: Tamara Ward

#85. Half of writing history is hiding the truth. - Author: Joss Whedon

#86. This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in. - Author: Dharma Mittra

#87. My wish is for you to be my firefly," I say. "After lockdown ends, we'll only see each other in moments, for short flickers of time."
"And it'll always make us smile," Milo says. - Author: Nikki Godwin

#88. 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. - Author: Joss Whedon

#89. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs. - Author: Groucho Marx

#90. Team Inara, commence Operation Joss-Whedon-Is-A-God. - Author: John Ringo

#91. Or maybe go sci-fi. You sorta look like that guy who roamed outer space everybody's so crazy about."
"Malcolm Reynolds?" asked Rook. - Author: Richard Castle

#92. That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain.
Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint. - Author: Joss Whedon

#93. Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell.
I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit. - Author: Jim Butcher

#94. 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. - Author: Groucho Marx

#95. In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we're lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we're truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top. - Author: Joanne Crisner

#96. A firefly blinked in front of me, and Lucille leaped off the step. It flew higher, but that dumb cat kept reaching for it. She didn't seem to know how far away it really was. Like the stars. Like a lot of things. - Author: Kami Garcia

#97. None of that "the day is over, now I can chill in front of my Firefly DVDs for the seventeenth time" warmth. - Author: S.M. Reine

#98. 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. - Author: Susan Kay

#99. 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right. - Author: David Conyers

#100. Light as feathers the witches fly,
The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. - Author: Katherine Mansfield