quotes 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 -
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.
-- Elinor GlynSource : Elinor Glyn (1907). “Three Weeks”
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
-- Eric Mackay -
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
-- Eugen HerrigelSource : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
-- Eva HoffmanSource : Eva Hoffman (2011). “Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language”, p.118, Random House
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The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
-- Evan Esar -
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For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.
-- George Santayana -
The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.
-- Giovanni RuffiniSource : Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.119
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Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.
-- Goldie Hawn -
Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
-- H. H. Asquith -
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
-- Harry Hershfield -
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.
-- Henri MatisseSource : Romare Bearden (2003). “The Art of Romare Bearden”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
-- Hermann Hesse -
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.
-- Horace -
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
-- Howard Stern -
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Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.
-- Ikkyu -
The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.
-- Ivan Panin -
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
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Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.
-- J.R. Ward -
Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.
-- James A. Baldwin -
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
-- James DickeySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.
-- James Gates PercivalSource : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
-- James Otis -
I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
-- Janet Morris -
If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
-- Jerry Garcia -
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I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God.
-- Joaquin MillerSource : "Shadows of Shasta". Book by Joaquin Miller. Epigraph, 1881.
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The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.
-- John Lyly -
By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.
-- John RamsaySource : John Ramsay (1840). “Eglinton park meeting, and other poems”, p.32
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Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
-- John Turner -
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Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.
-- Joseph Conrad -
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
-- Jules VerneSource : Jules Verne (1969). “20,000 leagues under the sea”, Signet Classics
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We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.
-- Julio Cortazar -
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
-- Julio Cortazar -
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
-- Kabir -
The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?
-- Kalki KrishnamurthySource : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("Tiruvazhundur Sivakozhundu"), 1999.
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Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.
-- Karen Miller -
They say that lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but the same is not true for courage. As it turns out, when courage strikes, it almost always begets more courage.
-- Kathi AppeltSource : Kathi Appelt (2013). “The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
-- Khalil Gibran -
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.
-- Laozi -
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
-- Lee Iacocca -
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
-- Loretta Lynn -
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
-- Lynne Truss -
One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.
-- Margaret GeorgeSource : Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin
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She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.
-- Marissa Meyer -
Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.
-- Mark-Anthony TurnageSource : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
-- Mary Stewart -
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Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!
-- Megan McCafferty -
The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.
-- Michael Peterson -
You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?
-- Mike Matusow -
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
-- Nicole JordanSource : Nicole Jordan (2010). “To Tame a Dangerous Lord”, p.84, Ballantine Books
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The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
-- Nikola TeslaSource : Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.28, Lulu Press, Inc
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
-- Oliver PlattSource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. May 06, 2010.
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
-- Orlando Aloysius BattistaSource : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
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When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.
-- Ovid -
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
-- P. N. ElrodSource : P. N. Elrod (2011). “The Vampire Files, Volume Three”, p.244, Penguin
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The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
-- Pauline Kael -
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
-- Phyllis Bottome -
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
-- Publilius Syrus -
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
-- Randall JarrellSource : 1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.
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Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.
-- Richard Neal -