Lightning Quotes - page 12

And yet it is hard to believe that anything in nature could stand revealed as solid matter. The lightning of heaven goes through the walls of houses, like shouts and speech; iron glows white in fire; red-hot rocks are shattered by savage steam; hard gold is softened and melted down by heat; chilly brass, defeated by heat, turns liquid; heat seeps through silver, so does piercing cold; by custom raising the cup, we feel them both as water is poured in, drop by drop, above. (Lucretius)
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lightning flashes through my skull mine eyeballs ache and ache my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. View quote
Herman Melville
Well, I think it is accidental. It's just something I started doing naturally and it had a lot to do with reading. I think that Dylan Thomas, his prose and poetry, was a big influence on me. Just his use of words... He would use so many odd words: like these three- and four-syllable words that you just don't normally hear. And they're not used in a manner that sets the text apart from the reader. Rather they're drawing the reader in. It's entirely based on the alliteration of the word itself-onomatopoeia and things like that. I feel like a lot of the words I use don't stick out in the song because they keep the feel of the song in mind. The rhythm-that's the primary thing. They're put in there for rhythm and alliteration as much as they are for meaning. And as long as they are not used extraneously, they're real lightning rods for people listening to the lyrics. If the words are really helping out the rhythm of the song then all they're going to do is draw the listener in even more. View quote
Colin Meloy
Can you hear the rhythm of all/Allah's creation? The rhythm of the clapping of the thunder and the rain? Can you see the rhythm of all creation? The lightning and the leaves and the seasons as they change? View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
Truth as clear and blue as the sky we walk under. Love as bright and loud as the lightning and thunder. Peace as pure and white as the moon, so full of wonder. So many different colours of Islam! View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
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. View quote
James Otis
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. View quote
Charles Dickens
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 flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. (Robert Redford)
Oh, talk about lightning striking twice. Another goal scrubbed out for the United States. View quote
Ian Darke
Once again he felt the now-familiar tingle on his skin, as when, just before a lightning strike, the air becomes electrically charged. View quote
Stephen R. Lawhead
Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. View quote
Horace
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States. View quote
Joe Biden
Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days, it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today! View quote
Homer
When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? View quote
William Shakespeare
Whem I'm playful I use the meridians and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder. View quote
Mark Twain
Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. View quote
Mark Twain
22. BECOME A WORTHY CONDUIT OF GOD'S LOVE AND CREATIVE POWER OF REALIZATION. 23. LIKE A LIGHTNING FLASH, WHEN CONDITIONS ARE PRESENT, THE LIGHT SUDDENLY FILLS US, ILLUMINATING THE WORLD FOR AN INSTANT. View quote
Alex Grey
Two words of such a book, though possessing no peculiar signification, if met with in the dullest sentence, are enough: they call up, what has been finely termed, the "lightning of the mind." We feel an instantaneous kindness and reverence towards an author (together with a high opinion of his discrimination) who cites as it were the very language of our dreams-the secret converse of our own invisible spirit. We are almost startled at its being made public, and fancy that we have been at some time overheard reading. He is forthwith admitted a member of our heart's privy council. His hard words and bad reasoning are forgiven: we shut our ears to his angular periods-remembering only that his habits and desires, his sympathies, perceptions and enjoyments, are under the same master-key as our own-that he has struck into the same path, drank at the same brook, mused upon the same bank, and plucked almost the same leaf with ourselves. (Samuel Laman Blanchard)
No, teaching could be done as fast as a lightning bolt. He'd cut across the valleys of my deepest doubts, giving light to the darkest crevices of my beaten-down, inhibited mind, accessing a natural storytelling ability within me that was utterly profound! View quote
Victor Villaseñor
It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. 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. View quote
Emily Brontë
Having kids is something you can't always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it. View quote
John Travolta
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong. View quote
Ben Stein