Bright Quotes - page 8

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up. (Rick Riordan)
You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks. View quote
Rick Riordan
Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright). View quote
Rick Riordan
Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don't. I don't know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you'll lose us. View quote
Steve Harvey
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. View quote
Taraji P. Henson
I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise. View quote
Tom Felton
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York. View quote
Tom Felton
Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are. View quote
William Goldman
But to proceed; as in order and place, so also in matter of her Creation, Woman far excells Man. things receive their value from the matter they are made of, and the excellent skill of their maker: Pots of common clay must not contend with China-dishes, nor pewter utensils vye dignity with those of silver.... Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity. (Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa)
The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well. View quote
Dave Morris
People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been. View quote
Jacqueline Susann
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 we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours. View quote
Jean Rhys
I know I cannot paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with. View quote
E. Lockhart
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. View quote
Erin Morgenstern
Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it. View quote
Alton Brown
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. (A. E. van Vogt)
Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love. View quote
Diana Vreeland
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to. View quote
Natalie Wood
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. View quote
Lisa Kudrow
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle