Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 390 authors

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. — Lee Iacocca
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system,… — Jon Bon Jovi
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. — Loretta Lynn
A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is… — Bret Michaels
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by… — James Otis
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Today's action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people. — Sylvester Stallone
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we… — Ben Stein
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the… — Oliver Stone
The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell,… — Lewis Thomas
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it. — John Travolta
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit… — Lee Trevino
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years. — Lee Trevino
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice. — Lee Trevino
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. — Mark Twain
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. — Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. — Mark Twain
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis… — George Will

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