Bright People

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. - Robert Redford

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

Electricity is really just organized lightning. - George Carlin

A story is told as much by silence as by speech. - Susan Griffin

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. - Xenocrates

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

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

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch. - Jack Nicholson

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. - Clifton Fadiman

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

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. - Pearl S. Buck

My mind works like lightning; one brilliant flash and it's gone. - Unknown

People are like music. Some speak the truth, and others are just noise. - Bill Murray

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. - Desmond Tutu

And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light. - Garth von Buchholz

How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb? How many can you afford? - Blanche Knott

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly. - Epictetus

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. - Anton Chekhov

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. - James Thurber

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. - Henri F Amiel

Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. - B.K. Iyengar

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change. - Charles Darwin

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing. - John Tillotson

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. - Harvey Mackay

The names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. - A.S. Byatt

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? - Jacques Plante

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. - Dr. Seuss

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. - Oscar Wilde

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain

Remembering that each of us will take our turns in darkness and in light, let us be light for one another when the darkness falls. - Unknown

We discern across the centuries a commanding and versatile intelligence, wielding with equal force the sword of war and of justice. - Winston Churchill

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. - Napoleon Hill

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. - Bertrand Russell

If we ever travel thousands of light years to a planet inhabited by intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave. - Bill Murray