Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer
When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch… — Mark Twain
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all… — John Chaney
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes… — Richard Chenevix Trench
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could… — Benjamin Alire Saenz
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. — Khalil Gibran
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs:… — Janet Morris
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning. — Karl Barth
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of… — Saint Patrick
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder… — Mark Twain
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. — Toni Morrison
He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is… — John Burroughs
Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To… — Rajneesh
If you wait for your natural soul mate to meet with you, it will be just like waiting for lightning with which to read your… — Rajneesh

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