Firefly Niska Quotes & Sayings

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. — Bryce Courtenay

Thinking of yourself as a destiny, not wanting to be 'other' than you are -that is under such circumstances the highest wisdom. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars! — Herman Melville

A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results. — Steven Redhead

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. — Michael Heizer

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written. — Kenneth Goldsmith

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. — Meg Rosoff

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last. — Adrian Rogers

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera. — Mark Twain

As people around the world become more affluent, they are demanding diets richer in animal protein, which will require ever more robust feed crop yields to sustain. — Nina Fedoroff

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms. — Nora Ephron

Do you think that everyone gets to be a star like that? Do you think that everyone gets to be seen? Gets to be loved? Gets to glow? They don't. They don't get to do it like you did. They don't get to be as beautiful as you were. And you just wanted to burn up. — Ava Dellaira

The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow' ... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but ... — Gene Roddenberry

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. — Rene Descartes

Freedom of choice comes at the price of intermittent insanity. — Abram Gitspof