Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.
I was quite bright, but I didn’t do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living – which, of course, it isn’t.
I was just a bright, driven kid.
Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he’s a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and the cameraman, Peter Juvenal, to interview bin Laden for his first TV interview.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I’ll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
I got ‘Will & Grace,’ and I thought, ‘Oh, this is different. I don’t know how to handle this. I’m not bright enough; I’m not quick enough, I don’t have the DNA to be a spokesperson for any kind of group of people.’
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
It requires genius to make a good pun – some men of bright parts can’t reach it.
It’s a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights.
I’ll never forget during the ‘Descendants’ parade at Disneyland when I waved at a girl with bright blue hair and witnessed her dream being realized and the involuntary tears that followed.
If you don’t have work for a border collie or time to train it properly, your bright young border collie will invent his own work, and chances are you won’t like it.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
I wasn’t surprised to find Samsung’s OLED screen to be bright, vivid, and clear. It’s beautiful, although in viewing some photos and videos, I found, as I have in the past, that – to my eye, at least – Samsung tends to oversaturate colors.
Games already pretty much have reached the point of photo-realism. Working on more intense graphics is not the only path we can take anymore. Simply relying on the sheer horsepower of the machine will not bring the industry a bright future.
I was someone who wore bright purple sweatsuits with tall Doc Martens boots. I would iron Hanson decals on my sweatshirt. I was extremely flamboyant as a child.
A beard and a turban sometimes conjure up negative associations, but if you see someone with a lime-colored, bright orange or pink turban, it disarms people’s stereotyped notion of this image.
If you are blonde with a little nose people always think you are gentle and not very bright.
I always make a joke: ‘Don’t look into the future; it’s too bright.’ That’s as positive as I can be.
Conservatives have always embraced the idea of grammar schools – that giving a top tier education to bright children from working class backgrounds provides them with the opportunities their middle class counterparts take for granted.
One of the things that ‘Too Bright’ refers to is how there’s a lot of times where I see things that I could change that could make me more contented, but I usually just don’t make those changes because they seem new and scary. I just stay where I’m at, even if I’m miserable, because I’m familiar with it.
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
I’m not a girl to wear a lot of bright color, but including a touch of color can pull an outfit together. I’m from New York and wear a lot of black, and color is refreshing.
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days.
I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection – life is too short not have fun!
I realised that the ‘future’ is different to how I imagined it. When I was a kid I thought it would be a bright, shiny Tomorrow’s World. It isn’t.
Any younger person – let’s say if you’re over the age of 30, Pride is a great excuse to go day-drinking. But no one forgets their first Pride and how much they felt that they were included and that the future was bright.
When I’m older, I want to have my own workout clothes line, like leggings and cute jackets in bright and fun colors.
The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.
That’s what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can’t help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
A man who correctly guesses a woman’s age may be smart, but he’s not very bright.
The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
I am quite old-fashioned: I wouldn’t consciously think ‘I am going to dress up in a sexy manner’ because it’s just not me. I like to look cheeky, friendly and approachable, and I wear bright colours, like a clown.
Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
A bright future for the nation depends on the health and prosperity of rural America.
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains – the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who’s in her presence is blessed to be there.
When you’re climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
Hillary Clinton’s not very bright. Everybody says she’s so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump. She doesn’t really have a grasp. She doesn’t have a grasp on what’s important and what’s not.
As soon as you enter Rajasthan, you are hit with colors. It’s such a sensory experience. You see women in bright pink and yellow saris, camels pulling carts, historic forts – history on each and every corner.
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
I’ve been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.
I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.
We manufacture a culture in the movie business, and whatever we put out creates a dark side and a bright side, too.
Obama and the liberal Democrats fail to represent the silent majority: the conservative women who are too busy raising families, paying bills, and making a living. These women prefer to listen to Rush Limbaugh, not Nancy Pelosi, and want their children to have jobs and a bright future in this great country.
In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young – people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it – and there is a corollary to everything – is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
