Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning. — Ernest Hemingway
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move. — Jodi Picoult
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right. — Ted Kooser
because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long… — Richard Brautigan
Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him… — Cormac McCarthy
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing… — Jonathan Stroud
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . — Tennessee Williams
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
I... do... not... do... lightning. — Ridley Pearson
Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum? — James Patterson
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
Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower,… — Tite Kubo
He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't… — John Steinbeck
I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of… — Amy Hempel
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has… — Jean-Paul Sartre
And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to… — Mariama BÃ¢
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in… — Pablo Neruda
Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won — William Shakespeare

Who Wrote These Lightning Quotes

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