Famous quotes containing the word bright:
“In the capsule biography by which most of the people knew one another, I was understood to be an Air Force pilot whose family was wealthy and lived in the East, and I even added the detail that I had a broken marriage and drank to get over it.... I sometimes believed what I said and tried to take the cure in the very real sun of Desert D’Or with its cactus, its mountain, and the bright green foliage of its love and its money.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“It was worth the while to lie down in a country where you could afford such great fires; that was one whole side, and the bright side, of our world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)