Bright Lights Big City Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Don't tell me what I do and don't deserve. Don't tell me about tomorrow, or the future, or any of it. — Sarah J. Maas

Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it. — Donald Margulies

The streets were very clean, very sunny, very empty, and very dull. A few idle men lounged about the two inns, and the empty market-place, and the tradesmen's doors, and some old people were dozing in chairs outside an alms-house wall; but scarcely any passengers who seemed bent on going anywhere, or to have any object in view, went by; and if perchance some straggler did, his footsteps echoed on the hot bright pavement for minutes afterwards. Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowzy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow. The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. — Charles Dickens

There are degrees and kinds of solitude ... I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have. — Aldo Leopold

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business. — Steve Maraboli

Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us. — Richard Paul Evans

Step-parents, those fairy tale villains,
Have been given a bad name.
They're easy targets.
When the family goes awry
How easy to blame them.
I was blessed by the right steps ... — Eileen Granfors