Bright Quotes

1996 Bright quotes by 1325 unique authors

He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I… — Megan Hart
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to… — Carl Sagan
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of… — Michael Jackson
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. — Khalil Gibran
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little… — Daphne du Maurier
I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a… — Sara Teasdale
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes… — Edgar Allan Poe
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized. — Ann Patchett
We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by… — Libba Bray
Already the dream was coming apart, its bright silk strands unwinding into nebulous emotions, little coloured clouds of feeling being dispersed by the movement of… — Steven Hall
So we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be as loving, And the moon still be as bright.… — Lord Byron
Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other… — Lisa Kleypas
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if… — Jean Rhys
But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons. — T.H. White
Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered… — Alice Sebold
The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;… — Annie Dillard
She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment… — Emily Bronte
It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be… — Ray Bradbury
I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As… — Dave Pelzer
And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with… — Jonathan Tropper
If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who… — Kurt Vonnegut

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