Bright Quotes

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.
Jane Campion

Experience, Sadness, Different

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
Donna Shalala

Death, Future, Person

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
Anna Chlumsky

Truth, Business, Happy

The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Charles Reade

Dark, Expect, Nor

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.
Dee Hock

Power, Ego, Small

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Peggy Noonan

Politics, Place, Often

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Maria Mitchell

Try, Universe, Stars

You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult place and tragic place, so it's more and more difficult for me to find the bright lights.
Michael Morpurgo

Friends, Find, Place

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
Allen Klein

Humor, Help, Until

For my prom I really wanted to wear a bright color - something that was going to pop and stand out.
Shay Mitchell

Wanted, Stand, Color

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.
Brian Williams

Light, Speak, Until

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
Lance Morrow

Home, Hat, Everywhere

Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.
Corey Feldman

Morning, Smile, Nothing

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
Augusten Burroughs

Mother, Father, Parents

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
Erin Morgenstern

Different, Said, Between

I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people.
Peter Jennings

Him, Guy, Listen

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
Hannah Cowley

Good, Men, Genius

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
Taraji P. Henson

Forward, Control, Negative

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
Wendell Berry

Life, Humble, Deep

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison

Truth, Human, Leaving

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
Luther Allison

Waiting, Sunshine, Show

I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
Tim Berners Lee

Good, Hard, Working

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.
Lisa Kudrow

Hard, Tv, Convince

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
Carlisle Floyd

Black, Different, Loved

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Life, School, Done

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.
Uma Thurman

Funny, Looking, Weird

I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'
Janelle Monae

Music, Song, Color

Ensuring a bright future for all our children is the responsibility of the community, the schools, families and like it or not- politicians as well.
Michael N. Castle

Future, Children, Community

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
Herman Hesse

Morning, Long, Through

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
Keith Henson

Learning, Person, Keep

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