Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach… — Robert Ludlum
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. — Abraham Maslow
Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my… — Nikola Tesla
Today is the great day of one of the revelations of this world. The interrelationships of these individual realms were illumined as by a flash… — Wassily Kandinsky
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating… — Adyashanti
We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard… — Harriet Tubman
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio,… — Davy Crockett
Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs… — Dave Barry
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than… — James A. Garfield
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see… — William John Locke
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that… — Charles Caleb Colton
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a… — Emma Goldman
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be… — Berthold Auerbach
I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds… — Alice Cooper
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. — Charles Dickens
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. — James Dickey
My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a… — David Duchovny
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. — Clint Eastwood
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. — Black Elk
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him,… — Augustus Hare

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