Quotes and Sayings About Lightning
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Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
-- Aldo Leopold -
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
-- Alexander Smith -
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!
-- Amy Hempel -
I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune -
Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
-- Avicenna -
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?
-- Benjamin Butler -
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
-- Bill Bryson -
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Money is an echo of value. It's the thunder to Value's Lightning.
-- Bob Burg -
If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.
-- Bob Hope -
Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
-- Buffalo Bill -
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Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.
-- Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniSource : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.63, Anchor
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Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.
-- Chris Colfer -
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
-- Cory DoctorowSource : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan
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Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
-- Daniel Boone -
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In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.
-- Daniel Dennett -
I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.
-- Dave Barry -
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
-- David Duchovny -
Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.
-- Deb Caletti -
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The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks.
-- Diana GabaldonSource : "Ron Moore's 'Outlander' Sets Female Lead" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2013.
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If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault.
-- Doc Bundy -
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
-- Dogen -
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Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
-- Don DeLillo -
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky