Quotes with bright

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  • Augusten Burroughs 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
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Helen Hunt Jackson O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
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  • Abba Goold Woolson One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • John Bright Popular applause veers with the wind.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • Ben Jonson Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
    Now the sun is laid to sleep,
    Seated in thy silver chair,
    State in wonted manner keep:
    Hesperus entreats thy light,
    Goddess, excellently bright.
    Cynthias Revels
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Thomas Arnold Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Emily Brontë She burned too bright for this world.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Campbell Brown Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Walter Savage Landor The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bruce Lee The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead - big possibilities. Like the song says, ''We've just begun.''
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Billy Beane The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Charles Reade The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
    Charles Reade
    British writer (1814 - 1884)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aaron Klug The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bill Buford The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Cameron Bright There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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