Lightning Quotes

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody's going to say yes to you. Just don't ever say no to yourself, ever.

Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.

People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.

What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

The half-human was the hottest thing he'd ever gotten anywhere near. And he'd cozied up to a lightning strike once or twice before.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.

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?"

Pain is usually represented by lightning attacking the guy. Glowing redness is also popular. Sometimes parts of the guy would just burst into flames.

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.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

By fancy's aid I see the lightning fly, And the hoarse thunder roll along the sky.

Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

Mr. Tall, Blonde and Lightning

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightning, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win.

As long as I'm alive, you'll never see the last of Lightning!

It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.

His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.