Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work,… — Julian Assange
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of… — Joseph Addison
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and… — Jack Black
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. — Eden Ahbez
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. — Bill Bryson
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler
Electricity is really just organized lightning. — George Carlin
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
He must be lightning slow. — Ron Atkinson
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt. — Sam Snead
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every… — Dannion Brinkley
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a… — Miguel de Cervantes
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
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… — P.G. Wodehouse
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. — Thomas Carlyle
These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of… — Thomas Carlyle
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. — Robert Redford
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. — Horace

Who Wrote These Lightning Quotes

394 authors contributed a total of 495 Lightning Quotes, led by these top contributors: