Bright star may refer to:
- Bright Star (film), 2009 feature about the life of poet John Keats
- "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art", the sonnet from which the film takes its name
- Bright Star (radio), 1950s US drama series
- SS Bright Star, a Panamanian coaster
- Operation Bright Star, name given to a number of U.S. military operations
- Bright Star Wilderness, area in Kern County, California
- Bright Star Technology, multimedia company
- Bright Star Catalogue, astronomical catalogue
- Bright giant, a class of star
- BrightStar Gold Mine, a gold mine in Western Australia.
- List of brightest stars
Famous quotes containing the words bright star, bright and/or star:
“the trouble lies in pointing
At any stars. For one’s own finger aims
Always elsewhere: the man beside one seems
Never to get the point. “No! The bright star
Just above my fingertip.””
—John Hollander (b. 1929)
“Your coat in my closet,
your bright stones on my hand,
the gaudy fur animals
I do not know how to use,
settle on me like a debt.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Exhaust them, wrestle with them, let them not go until their blessing be won, and, after a short season, the dismay will be overpast, the excess of influence withdrawn, and they will be no longer an alarming meteor, but one more brighter star shining serenely in your heaven, and blending its light with all your day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)