Quote by Dan Simmons

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ― Mark Twain, The…

— Zan Marie Steadham

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug. Mark Twain”

— Nancy Oswald

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

— Robert Littell

“Each success, no matter how small, in practice of what I love is a lightning strike against the dark.”

— Clare L. Martin

“It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Lightning doesn't strike twice.”

— Robert Galbraith

“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”

— Jennifer Bosworth

“Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I decided to ride the lightning instead of extinguishing the light of life that had once shown out of my eyes.”

— Carrie Fisher

“Let those strikes of lightning come so we will quickly know what leaves us.”

— Jenny Boully

“Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.”

— Samuel Snoek-Brown

“Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.”

— Sarah Mlynowski