Bright Quotes

1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp… — Gustave Flaubert
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright… — Lewis Carroll
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? — William Blake
Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make… — Kate DiCamillo
in black ink my love may still shine bright. — William Shakespeare
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The… — Annie Dillard
We've barley stepped into the bright glow of the realms when everything goes dark... — Libba Bray
I want a brighter word than bright — John Keats
I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children… — Greg Mortenson
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so… — Diane Ackerman
I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated… — Kurt Vonnegut
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. — Ernest Hemingway
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags… — Orson F. Whitney
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather… — C.S. Lewis
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and… — C.S. Lewis
For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a cup of weak… — Neil Gaiman
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for… — Wendy Wasserstein
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological… — Jack Kerouac
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1,… — William Shakespeare
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon — Norman Mailer
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set… — A. E. Housman

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