Not The Brightest Quotes

#1. I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

Frankie Boyle

#2. Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

John Green

#3. If you're not the brightest or if you're not great at sports, or if you're not artistic, then you've got to find a way to make your mark; otherwise you're just this tiny little insignificant dot. I didn't want to be insignificant, so I made people laugh.

Sharon Horgan

#4. He's not the brightest pickle in the crayon jar.

Me

#5. He's not the brightest crayola in the pack.

P.C. Cast

#6. Aren't you affected by Simon's magic?"...
"Took you this long to ask me that?"
She clucks her tongue. "You're not the brightest flame in the fire, are you?"
"Don't make me hit you in a library.

Sara Raasch

#7. They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.

Margaret Atwood

#8. You the one that got jumped?
I didn't think my blood-matted hair and debris ridden clothes needed an answer, but he was waiting for one. Not the brightest crayon in the box.

Nicole Williams

#9. Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Jo Nesbo

#10. It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Andrew Cuomo

#12. In Valentine's Day or in any other day, the brightest star is not Venus or Jupiter but the very love in people's heart!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick.

Karina Halle

#14. Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

Lord Edward FitzGerald

#15. When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups.

Barack Obama

#16. To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.

Joel Brown

#17. Always wear a good watch, no matter what if you are wearing a suit or sweats. A good watch will hold value over time. It's not about the brightest or the biggest diamonds, it's about quality mechanisms, the heritage of the company you're buying it from.

Trey Songz

#18. It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Charles Darwin

#19. Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#20. The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do.

Anonymous

#21. I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.

John F. Kennedy

#22. I do not want to sleep
for fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest star

for fear I may never know
how the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour.

Sanober Khan

#23. You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Mary Antin

#24. Whether we deserve this or not, whether these turn out to be the darkest days of our lives or the brightest happiness, we've been guided by love. How can we go wrong when we're guided by love, Olivia.

Morgan Parker

#25. The brightest has a gathering of people stood about it. Trapped beneath their heels, stretched shadows shy back from the flames, yet do not jump or dance. What are they burning there, so still by night? My

Alan Moore

#26. As the sun outshines the brightest star in the heavens, dispels every vestige of darkness and gives life and light to all beings, so, in a not too distant future, will the true religion of Christ supersede and obliterate all other religions, to the eternal benefit of mankind.

Max Heindel

#27. It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

Harold Prince

#28. The brightest moments of human discovery are those unplanned and random instants when you thumb through a strange book in a foreign library or talk auto maintenance with a neuroanatomist. We need our searches to include cross-wiring and dumb accidents, too, not just algorithmic surety.

Michael Harris

#29. In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

Tom Peters

#30. Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

Charles De Lint

#31. Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Samuel Johnson

#32. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fidel Castro

#33. It is at midnight, not midday, that stars shine the brightest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. You might not be the brightest kid but the harder you try the brighter you are" - Ayah (The New Girl in the City)

Ayah

#35. The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

Larry Niven

#36. Like it or not, i was already learning that in the worst and darkest time, I would find specks of light, moments of joy. What I didn't want to learn was the other, harsher lesson - that in life's brightest moments there would also be unbearable pain. p 87

Melody Beattie

#37. Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Terry Wogan

#38. might not be the brightest bulb in the box, but

James Rollins

#39. I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Kurt Schrader

#40. You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

Pierce Brown

#41. I am not at all the kind who can forget the tarnish on the reverse side of the brightest coin.

V.C. Andrews

#42. My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.

Jay Samit

#43. Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

Brenda Ueland

#44. I might not have been the brightest bulb in the box, but I lasted longer and provided more light in the long run.

Patricia H. Graham

#45. Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

Richard Sibbes

#46. There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

Henry David Thoreau

#47. For nothing, not the sun, not the rain, not even the brightest star in the darkest sky, could begin to compare to the wonder of you.

Renee Ahdieh

#48. The stage crew usually had the job of approaching fans. Putting himself in close proximity to a hoard of screaming women wasn't his brightest idea. He knew from experience that the first appendage they grabbed for was not your arm, and they didn't grasp lightly.

Eden Summers

#49. I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

#50. I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.

Jack Welch

#51. You are on a soulful path that asks you to step into the greatest version of yourself. It is a sacred gift to shine your brightest light, not just in your moments of glory, but each day.

Debbie Ford

#52. Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

Johannes Kepler

#53. The great, like stars, are not afraid of dark times for that is when they shine the brightest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#54. I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

Thomas J. Sargent

#55. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root.

C.S. Lewis