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Quotes About Bright

Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The sight of the food made Jerott want to vomit. He said cheerfully, 'Well, well. Thank God you're a dab hand at chess.' 'If you're going to be bright,' said Lymond, with a soft and frightening venom, 'I'll break your sweet little neck.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Verily, God hath eighteen thousand worlds; and verily, your world is one of them, and this its bright axle-tree." The odd phrase stayed with Chancellor, through Pinega and beyond
~ Dorothy Dunnett
He was glad to see the agent back in form, at least superficially, his finely chiseled face so pale that it might have been crafted from marble, his eyes especially bright in the cool wash of natural light that filled the space. He was, however, as thin as a damn scarecrow.
~ Douglas Preston
If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling. But this house was the essence of modernity. There were no dark corners—no possible sliding panels—it was flooded with electric light—everything was new and bright and shining. There was nothing hidden in this house, nothing concealed. It had no atmosphere about it. Somehow, that was the most frightening thing of all….
~ Agatha Christie
Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls, young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafés and drifting through the student communities of Europe— gifted, bright, but never truly finding themselves.
~ Alan Furst
a bright sun, white wisps of cirrus cloud strung across the sky
~ Alan Furst
Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
~ David Hewson
Unless I'm asked to dress up in a costume, TV shows prefer a clean, modern look, so I've developed a wardrobe full of plain, bright colours. If it's an outdoors job, I just wear big jumpers.
~ Kate Williams
I just sort of choose to see the good in things, and I choose to - I don't know - look on the bright side, as cheesy as it sounds.
~ Krysten Ritter
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
~ Pierre Loti
His eyes were as blank and bright as doorknobs.
~ Richard Bachman
Her sunny side was always up.
~ Richard Brautigan
Braininess is attractive
~ Richard Dawkins
To evaluate weaknesses in your teen, be aware of his capacity to engage in effortful (and nonpreferred) mental tasks. If he is bright and a good "consumer" of information (interested in a range of topics, likes to read and watch educational programs), but is not a good "producer" of information (struggles with projects, papers, etc.), executive skills are likely involved.
~ Richard Guare
Worldview is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed much more brightly, than in some other intellectual or scientist.
~ Julius Evola
There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it's the odd good one that makes a big difference.
~ Karl Pilkington
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
~ O. Henry
Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man
~ Hanshan
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
~ H. G. Wells
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
~ Daniel Baldwin
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
~ George R. R. Martin
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.
~ John Milton
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
~ John Ruskin