Lightning Quotes

495 quotes by 394 authors

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do. — Howard Stern
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. — William Faulkner
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of… — Alexander Pope
Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill… — Thomas A. Edison
Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. — William Tyler
You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here? — Mike Matusow
Move like a beam of light: fly like lightning, strike like thunder, whirl in circles around a stable center — Morihei Ueshiba
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. — Benoit Mandelbrot
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of… — Henry David Thoreau
I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not? — Jack Handey
Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were… — Jack Handey
If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. — Doc Bundy
The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning… — Erwin Rommel
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. — Theodor Reik
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde
I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and… — Nikola Tesla
In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to… — Evan Bayh
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself… — Eugen Herrigel
One always imagines that the days that change oneâ€™s life must be marked with something extraordinary in natureâ€”storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so… — Margaret George

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