Bright star may refer to:
- Bright Star (film), 2009 feature about the life of poet John Keats
- "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art", the sonnet from which the film takes its name
- Bright Star (radio), 1950s US drama series
- SS Bright Star, a Panamanian coaster
- Operation Bright Star, name given to a number of U.S. military operations
- Bright Star Wilderness, area in Kern County, California
- Bright Star Technology, multimedia company
- Bright Star Catalogue, astronomical catalogue
- Bright giant, a class of star
- BrightStar Gold Mine, a gold mine in Western Australia.
- List of brightest stars
Famous quotes containing the words bright star, bright and/or star:
“the trouble lies in pointing
At any stars. For one’s own finger aims
Always elsewhere: the man beside one seems
Never to get the point. “No! The bright star
Just above my fingertip.””
—John Hollander (b. 1929)
“But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not a distance of time, but a distance of relation, which makes thus dusky its memorials. What is near to the heart of this generation is fair and bright still. Greece lies outspread fair and sunshiny in floods of light, for there is the sun and daylight in her literature and art. Homer does not allow us to forget that the sun shone,—nor Phidias, nor the Parthenon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star!”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)