Bright People

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle. - Goldie Hawn

Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching. - Marty Stern

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. - George Lucas

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence. - Spanish Proverb

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

It's not so much knowing when to speak... but when to pause. - Jack Benny

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor. - August Bier

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. - Chinese Proverb

If you want to lead the people, you must first speak to their eyes. - Napoleon Bonaparte

They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. - Clint Eastwood

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. - Helen Keller

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. - David Lee Roth

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt. - Margaret Deland

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. - Dr. John Aiken

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. - Jimmy Durante

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. - George Bernard Shaw

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. - Liz Armbruster

When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass. - Sir Richard Steele

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - George Jessel

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I would gladly eat a network executive or a politician. - Marty Feldman

A smile is the lightning system of the face, the cooling system of the head, and the heating system of the heart. - Unknown

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. - Matthew 5:14-16

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. - Mark Twain

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. - Marya Mannes

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light! - Edna St Vincent Millay

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. - Voltaire

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? - Linda Ellerbee