Lightning Quotes

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. (Mark Twain)
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Electricity is really just organized lightning. View quote
George Carlin
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Move like a beam of light; Fly like lightning, Strike like thunder, Whirl in circles around A stable center. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. View quote
Ken Kesey
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. View quote
Mark Twain
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. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. View quote
James Dickey
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 horror rend th' affrighted skies. (Alexander Pope)
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. View quote
Don DeLillo
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. View quote
Vitruvius
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. View quote
Mark Twain
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. View quote
Lee Trevino
Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning. View quote
Richard Neal
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . View quote
Tennessee Williams
The idea that a game is anything more than a game... You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard. View quote
Gary Gygax
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 deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. (Erwin Rommel)
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock. View quote
Saint Patrick
When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough. View quote
Robert Jordan
In four days, I experienced five seasons. It was thirty, it was sixty, it was ninety, then it was twelve! And on the last day, there was thunder, lightning, and snow - together! And I hadn't done drugs. View quote
Lewis Black