Lightning Quotations | Page 2

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

the moment of a miracle is unending lightning ...

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

When we bumped into Belle, the story is very romantic. She was very involved in society. Belle the name was right. It was just one of those lightning bolt deals.

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.

Blunt is an insider. He is soft-spoken, but a hardcore right-winger who has very close relations with the business community and ideological conservatives. He's not as much of a lightning rod as DeLay.

We are anticipating a wind and dry lightning event this weekend. So, we're gearing up for that.

As summer in the northern hemisphere progresses, you see lightning moving farther north. You see a similar pattern in the southern hemisphere, but not so pronounced because there isn't as much land outside the tropics.

They are all coming to the show and we'll have a little catch-up backstage. We're not in Sydney for very long this time: it's a lightning visit.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

We see that a lot in practice. He's got a lot of athletic ability. He's lightning quick, strong. He's just an athlete. For him to be able to go out and do that after just a couple routes at practice, that was really, really, really, really big.

As the lightning at all times smites irresistibly the tree, thus would I to-day irresistibly beat the gamesters with my dice!

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

It was all a bit strange as no other airline seemed to have suffered from lightning strikes and later we were told there had been a technical fault.

With hundreds of breakthrough features, including Spotlight, a lightning fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac, Tiger will fundamentally change the way people use their computers. We're thrilled that Fujitsu has developed a solution that allows Tiger users to Spotlight search their collection of scanned documents, photographs, and other electronic files.

This signing is absolutely huge for the Lightning franchise.

We should be able to make new connections between the lightning strength and speed required to produce these phenomena in the upper atmosphere.

The reasons we stopped selling the gear are very straightforward. It is highly controversial in the Raleigh-Durham area. Having that type of product out in front of our customers seemed to be a lightning rod. And secondly, we had customers who saw it out in the store and complained about it.

Storms like these can often do more harm than good. You can get lightning outside of the range of the thunderstorms and that could spark fires.

When lightning struck, it sounded like a bomb went off, ... We saw a flash on the east, and it struck on the west.

When lightning struck, it sounded like a bomb went off. We saw a flash on the east, and it struck on the west.

DeLay has been a lightning rod for people for the last three or four years.

I've never got beside one and run with it. But usually when they make a burst for the water, it's lightning fast.

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

A lot of it is mystique. We're just playing on our reputation a lot of times. Everybody sees us as a defensive monster. They think we're lightning quick. But then they stand next to us and see we're not that way. It's perception. We probably get 8-10 in perception every time we step on the floor.

There was 300 miles of lightning, and it looked like lightning wouldn't end until 1 a.m.. There was no period we could get the game in.

This recipe came to me like a lightning bolt out of the blue. I think it is a great way to enjoy well-known comfort foods with a unique and interesting twist.

Trying to take lessons from this summer is going to be like trying to capture lightning in a bottle, ... because it's all changing all the time. By next summer, who knows where audience habits and tastes will be?

This clap of lightning went boom! It was like somebody had shot him. The lightning went right through him... It was horrible.

This is the best defense they've had since I've been the coach here. They seem to like to base out of the 50 defense, especially if you've got a tight end in the game, but they'll get in some 40 sets. Their defense isn't very big, but they're lightning quick. Any defense that holds Lowndes to 100 yards rushing is impressive.

Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say ""Storms suck!

You're much more likely to be attacked by lightning or by your own toilet than you are by a shark,

This is a total shocker. You don't expect to come in here and win like this, especially against a team of Plainfield's caliber. We just caught lightning in a bottle.

In leadership, you become a lightning rod and a target. It gives you influence to deliver for your district, but that comes at a high political cost. There comes a point where voters ask, 'Is he more concerned about coming back here or staying up there?

I've found the smartest thing I could do was stay off the radar. I know just enough to be dangerous, meaning, if you express your opinions, people are going to take a side on it. I don't want to do that. I don't want to be a lightning rod, but I want to be supportive. That's the fine line I walk.

I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm doing is capturing unbridled emotion and putting it on canvas. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle.

I'm happy with the split. It's kind of like thunder and lightning back there.

I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King.

I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till the lightning falls.

In the wet-barrel market - the real barrels that are stored and traded - there is no shortage of oil. But the paper barrels - the futures market - react like a lightning rod in a volatile market. That's their role.

Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning speed here. Two years ago no one knew what 'dot com' was.

I'm not going to say consider the source, but why he was the lightning rod for everything wrong in Boston, I don't know. And I can only speak on what I've seen here, and he played great.

Every night we have 40 to 50 new lightning strikes; 95 percent of those are being extinguished before they get started,

Everyone at the club feels for Kevin as once is bad enough but for lightning to strike twice is unbelievably bad luck.

Taft is an outstanding basketball team. I can see why they're favored to win their section. Not only are they lightning quick, but they can shoot too.

It's really not at all that well understood, Nobody really knows what starts a lightning stroke.

I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.

Danica has brought more eyeballs to this series. She's lightning in a bottle.

Davidson is super-athletic. They're quick. They're not super big, but they are hard-nosed. Tristan Welch is just a bear. He's quick as lightning and can jump out of the gym. He's so quick and heady. He is one of the best players around.

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

Shawn is lightning fast and so powerful. He does things on the mat you can't teach. He just launches people.

They certainly put up points. They're going to be lightning quick and will probably press the whole way.

Hey, the Lightning is our bread. This is our family. Yes, it will be real unbelievable to play in the Olympics, but when we get back, I don't think we will allow ourselves to lose focus. The Lightning is the most important thing to all of us.

I don't know how to answer that. Even if you have two good years, you've got to do a third. If you have three, you have to do it four. I've got to prove I can do it again, that the Royals did not catch lightning in a bottle or that it was a fluke. I don't think so, but there will always be questions.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.

It was a frustrating tournament because of the weather. Rain and lightning were the problems on Sunday and Monday. But, thank goodness, we got all the matches in.

The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.

They hit (Green) too many times, and that's a credit to the guys on the other side of the field wearing that lightning bolt on their helmet.

They hit him too many times, ... and that's a credit to those guys over on the other side of the line of scrimmage wearing that lightning bolt on their helmet. We just have to get better.

It was most probably an accident. Lightning could have struck or it could have been (caused by) the condition of the explosives there.

It's hard to catch lightning in a bottle twice. The fact that he wasn't able to build on that achievement (in 1996) is a comment on the uniqueness of that race and what he had to offer as a candidate.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

In addition we had a whole bunch of lightning and thunder. That's pretty rare, and any time you get that with a winter storm it indicates just how intense the storm is.

I never thought the show would be this huge. It's tough to even get a show on the air, let alone have people watch it week in and week out. We've really captured lightning in a bottle. This happens once in a gazillion Hollywood years.

A quiet assassin who let his game do the talking. He wanted the ball in his hands when the game was on the line. A truly gifted athlete with incredible foot speed and lightning quick hands and he developed into an outstanding three-point shooter.

The Fugitive Slave Act was a flagrant example of Northern and federal collaboration with slaveholders, a lightning rod that led to the growth of the anti-slavery movement.

The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

Their linebackers are the smallest and the fastest and tough. They are lightning bolts.

'The Karate Kid' was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi's life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.

The chances of being attacked by a great white are less than being struck by lightning - we are talking about an infinitesimally small risk... there's more risk of walking out onto a busy road and being struck down by a car.

You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?

LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.

LIGHTNING WILL SHOOT FROM MY ASS!!!

You can see this is where the lightning went down the back of both legs.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

It's the nature of coaching, ... You get someone who's done it and you feel like, 'Well, maybe I can catch lightning in a bottle one more time.'

(I) took a lightning bolt to the head. It flashed over my body, through the putter and put a big hole in the ground. The flash stopped my heart.

It's a horrible freak accident. Apparently, a lightning bolt struck the mine.

There's been all kinds of scenarios that I thought would never happen in basketball. Lightning doesn't strike the same place twice, so it couldn't happen too many more times.

You have to love the company itself. It caught lightning in a bottle and is a tremendous company. But where we have a problem is that emotionalism will now dictate the price of the stock.

We saw the lightning through the window, but when I heard the explosive noise, I had no idea.

I told him when I became general manager that I want him here for a career. I want him to be like a Steve Yzerman that we win a couple of championships here and at the end of his career his sweater is retired to the rafters and he is a Tampa Bay Lightning player for life.

It was the biggest lightning strike and the loudest one Ive ever seen,

It showed our kids they could go up against great athletes and compete -- and compete as a team. If we hadn't come out after the lightning delay and executed and won that game, where would we have gone?

There is this primordial soup brewing of more bandwidth, more storage, more devices and more people creating content which is inherently digital. The lightning that struck is that the people have rapidly adopted all this even faster than we in the industry conceived, and bypassed the traditional media.

They're lightning quick. They are the fastest side in the competition. Everyone knows that's the case.

colorful, uplifting, lightning quick, music-filled evening of theatre dedicated to revolutionary American slave girl Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American published poet, whose poetic genius lifted her from New England parlor trick into the great salons of Europe and beyond.

I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.

I'd say there's six teams that could win it, and the only reason I say that is it's difficult to win four games in four days for the lower four teams. But any of the other six, they could catch lightning in a bottle for three days and roll through that tournament.

I don't like the idea of having a lightning rod by the water. I think the location is bad. I don't think it should be around the school.