Lightning Quotes
495 quotes by 394 authors
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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
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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
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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
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
— Eden Ahbez
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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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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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Electricity is really just organized lightning.
— George Carlin
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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
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He must be lightning slow.
— Ron Atkinson
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The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
— Sam Snead
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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'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
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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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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
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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
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He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.
— Robert Redford
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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: