Bright Quotes

1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or… — Toni Morrison
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark… — Daniel Barenboim
The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among… — Mao Zedong
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows… — William Blake
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright. — William Wordsworth
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of… — Dante Alighieri
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your… — James Lileks
Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun. — Robert Hunter
Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner… — Robert Hunter
They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive… — Don DeLillo
In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't… — Katherine Catmull
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… — Elizabeth Goudge
I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds,… — Kim Harrison
I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes. — David Foster Wallace
Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful! — Stuart Duncan
There are other places, surely, for other people, but for me there is one place, Ann Arbor, for there it was I discovered what lifes… — William Shawn
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright… — Ann Patchett
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in… — Mark Helprin
What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto. — Michael Ondaatje
The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the… — Frederick Douglass
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.… — Ramakrishna
I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house — Anna Akhmatova

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