In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Man had discovered fire when lightning struck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds! — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I paint on the ground. I paint with sticks, with big paint cans, and whatever else falls in it. Basically, what I'm… — Richard Grieco Copy Share Image
“I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Marriage is the lightning rod that absorbs anxiety and stress from all other sources, past and present. When marriage has a firm… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about” — Anthony McDonald Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I was lucky because when I'd done 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,' I had to have extensive weapons training. — Alexandra Daddario Copy Share Image
They chose the olive" "They must really like olives" "Forget it" "Now if she invented pizza that i can understand" -Percy to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Lightning sometimes shocks people because it just doesn't know how to conduct itself. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“In mythology, lightning represents either the loss of ignorance or punishment for those who overstep their bounds. I used two bolts since… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head. — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right. — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“Ah! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“Inside, just visible, was a baby boy, fast asleep. Under a tuft of jet-black hair over his forehead they could see a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my… — Christian Hosoi Copy Share Image