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Quotes About Bright

As we swam, or played, or talked, a feeling would come. It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, buoyant where they were heavy, bright where they were dull.
~ Madeline Miller
New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very lively, and never gay. When she glitters she is very, very bright, and when she does not glitter she is dirty.
~ Maeve Brennan
In Wexford non c'è niente di cupo. Il sole sorge molto vicino alla città e a volte sembra che si levi tra le case. Il vento disperde semi contro i muri e lungo i bordi dei tetti, così, se alzi lo sguardo, tra te e il cielo puoi vedere sbocciare le margherite.
~ Maeve Brennan
According to Dionysius, the Divine Darkness appears dark only because it is so dazzlingly bright-- a paradox I have attempted to understand by looking directly at the sun and noticing the dark spot that flowers at its center. But as compelling as this paradox, or this experiment, may be, I am not as interested in it as I am the fact that in Christian iconography, this "dazzling darkness" appears with startling regularity as blue.
~ Maggie Nelson
Smile strained and over-bright, he deemed her honesty sterling.
~ Unknown
The griding sword with discontinuous wound   Pass'd through him, but th' Ethereal substance clos'd   Not long divisible, and from the gash   A stream of Nectarous humor issuing flow'd   Sanguin, such as Celestial Spirits may bleed,   And all his Armour staind ere while so bright.
~ John Milton
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or
~ John Milton
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
~ John Steinbeck
Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine.
~ John Steinbeck
There's nothing else in this world the color of a school bus. They call it yellow but it's not quite yellow, and it's not orange either. I'd say it's something somewhere in between margarine and Velveeta. It's not a natural color. Then again I guess if we wanted kids to grow up natural we wouldn't put them on a school bus in the first place.
~ Unknown
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
~ Pat Conroy, Beach Music
Our journey to success is not always trying to reach the star that shines the brightest, it is learning along the way and making our own stars shine bright from within.
~ Unknown
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
~ Margaret Atwood
The fat man, taken by surprise, was very hurt. "Search me, Missus." "I might if I had the time. Her bright eyes, small and dark as his own, took in his great bulk with wicked amusement. "What are you carrying about with you? The dome of St Paul's?" "Ho! Who's talking, eh?" As the insult went home he forgot all caution. "Margot Fonteyn of the Convent Garden I suppose.
~ Margery Allingham
For a successful strategy session, keep the food light, the lights bright, and drink caffeine all night.
~ Mike Brown
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
~ Vinton Cerf
You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright.
~ Lisa Loeb
Self-confidence will eliminate the need for approval and your tunnel vision will soon diminish. It is very bright outside and its waiting for you.
~ Unknown
Looks like a girl but she's a flame. So bright she can burn your eyes better look the other way. You can try but you'll never forget her name. She's on top of the world. hottest of the hottest girl
~ Alicia Keys
Obama supporters are like christmas lights. They all hang out together, half of em don't work, and the ones that do work aren't very bright.
~ Unknown
Like you, like stars, I am retreating year by year, and these rooms seem enough: midnight to north and south, and the mirror I study from this bed filled, in its upper reaches, with silvered light, vacant. bright Absentee Like a fontanel, Emily, like a door, my face, yours, closing. - Late Conversation
~ Mark Doty
Bright and wild like fire. Ha. Friendless and alone like a pathetic loser was more like it.
~ Unknown
Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.
~ Frederick Lenz
Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.
~ Jim Butcher, Skin Game