Lightning Quotes

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

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 a flash of lightning.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.

Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Dry creek glimpsed by lightning

The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.