The Brightside Quotes & Sayings

We were making our own history every day, trying to make it count. — Katie Delahanty

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won. — Che Guevara

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.' — Brandon Flowers

Saint Joseph, Michigan is a hamlet catered specifically to the tastes of rich, vacationing city folk. In the summer, these wealthy tourists haul their yachts out of storage and settle into their lakeside summer homes. When they aren't oiling up on the beach, they flock to quaint ice cream parlors and overpriced clothing and art stores along Dove Street. Of course, none of the permanent residents of St. Joe can afford to buy anything from those boutiques, but we do get a little pleasure when yuppies get their stilettos stuck in the cracks of our brick-paved roads. Apart from the beach and movie theater, it's our main source of entertainment. — Jennifer Brightside

Hate school but love school and threat it right so you can be where you love to be all right? — Mohlalefi J Motsima

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. — Mos Def

106 [degrees] in the valley ... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents. — Jay Leno

I'm Olivia," I say, trying to keep my hand from melting in his as he grips it. I'm touching a member of the Brightside! — Katie Delahanty

There's a reason people say everything happens for a reason, but don't think about that reason too much, because then you'll turn into the unhappy "skeptical one" of the group. — Jay Clark

I think my view is rather more radical than Pete Mandik's. Both of us want to show that colour perception doesn't transcend what can be conceptualized, but I don't think he goes so far as to deny that it doesn't involve different responses to all the discriminable surfaces. — David Papineau

There was something in the color white that resembled silence. Both were emptied of life. — Elif Shafak

Opportunity finds you when it's ready, not when you are. — Katie Delahanty

sometimes being superficial - taking things only at first glance - is the most profound approach. — Ryan Holiday

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. — Juvenal

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever. — Brandon Flowers

Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain's Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink. — David Bianculli

Sometimes it takes a scar to expose the beauty. I prefer a world full of contrast. It's much more interesting. — Katie Delahanty

They [the Puritans] disallowed of the cathedral mode of worship; of singing their prayers, and of the antiphone or chanting of the Psalms by turns, which the ecclesiastical commissioners in King Edward the Sixth's time advised the laying aside. Nor did they approve of musical instruments, as trumpets, organs, etc. — Daniel Neal

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work. — John Taylor Gatto

Any selfish person can light up a room. But a truly selfless person leaves the room (without saying goodbye to anyone) right before they get in a bad mood. See the distinction? — Jay Clark