Lightening Quotes

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win. (Maureen Johnson)
A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle. View quote
Stephen J. Cannell
Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one. View quote
Ryan Adams
The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me. View quote
Markus Zusak
She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think. View quote
E. Lockhart
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. View quote
Frances Willard
Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Most of my songs are about ladies. This one's about ladies metaphorically. There are some of my songs that are about the power of lightening. View quote
Ryan Adams
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. View quote
Barack Obama
Since as we have seen the entrepreneurial qualification is something which, like many other qualities, is distributed in an ethnically homogeneous group according to the law of error, the number of individuals who satisfy progressively diminishing standards in this respect continually increases. Hence, neglecting exceptional cases - of which the existence of a few Europeans in a negro population would be an example - with the progressive lightening of the task continually more people can and will become entrepreneurs, wherefore the successful appearance of an entrepreneur is followed by the appearance not simply of some others, but of ever greater numbers, though progressively less qualified. (Joseph Schumpeter)
When it is storming and raining, thundering and lightening I am in my element; nature must be seen in action. Then outside, I put on my jacket, put my feet in clogs, put on a hat and start on a march. When the showers settle down, with charcoal or black chalk [I] make a scribble, to keep a firm grip on what one sees. When working out, hue and color come smoothly back into the memory. View quote
Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch
People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. View quote
Andie MacDowell
Melbourne is very sophisticated and edgy - we wear a lot of black. Things are lightening up a little bit, but truly, everything looks good in black. View quote
Jessica Hart
'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world. View quote
Todd Phillips
One may well use one's head even though one is in love. Someone has said that one cannot prevent lightening from striking – but one may prevent the whole town from burning down. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. View quote
Richard Blackmore
No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. View quote
Helen Keller
Motivation'Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. View quote
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. View quote
Ted Nelson