Lightning Quotes

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.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

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

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.

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

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

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

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.

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.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

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

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.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

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

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

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 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.