Lightning Quotations | Page 3

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

If he can sometimes be a lightning rod and keep some of the criticism away from the president, I think that's fine with him.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning.

Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

Love is a clash of lightnings

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.

The kids wanted to prove that they deserve the respect of the district. Christmas only comes once a year and lightning only hits a place once. These guys were out to show to themselves that they can do good things in district.

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.

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.

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.

The lightning means we're kind of taking two steps forward and one step back every day. That's the only way we're going to get the rain we need.

The lightning speed with which these copies spread around the planet was horrifying, ... No matter how much you spend on security or what precautions you take, the grim truth is once a film gets uploaded on the Internet, suddenly it's everywhere.

The lightning was so bad, and the field conditions were so bad ... it was just a bad situation.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

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.

Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

Pulque - lightning nectar for the Gods.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

Lightning crashed on the horizon. A breeze swirled around the Cast Members. The air tasted dusty, almost bitter, with electrical charge.

I... do... not... do... lightning.

Put yourself in the path of lightning,

Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.

They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to Annabeth in the lightning theif

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

He bats like a lightning rod.

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.

There was a wild light in his eyes. "Bring your lightnings, Aes Sedai. I will dance with them.

He must be lightning slow.

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

Movies are like writing history with lightning.

This is history written in lightning.

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.

When you can use the lightning it is better than cannon

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

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.

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

The storm was raging. The sea was beating against the rocks in huge, dashing waves. The lightning was flashing, the thunder was roaring, the wind was blowing; but the little bird was sound asleep in the crevice of the rock, its head tucked serenely under its wing. That is peace -- to be able to sleep in the storm! In Christ, we are relaxed and at peace in the midst of the confusions, bewilderments, and perplexities of this life. The storm rages, but our hearts are at rest. We have found peace -- at last!

Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work

Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

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.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and thelightning bug.

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Money can't buy off the lightning.

Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.