Lightning Quotes

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

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

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

A brain hemorrhage puts it all in a deeper perspective. I'm one of those guys hit by lightning. I see the big picture. Everything is in perspective now. Let's just say I'm the kind of guy who knows how to enjoy the moment.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

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

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

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

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

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.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

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