Quotes with lightning

  • Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
  • The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
  • 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.

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  • Joseph Addison 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.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bret Michaels 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.
    Bret Michaels
    American singer-songwriter, musician and actor (1963 - )
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  • Charles Dickens Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot 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.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lee Trevino How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Ken Kesey I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
    Ken Kesey
    American writer (1935 - 2001)
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  • Bob Hope If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Ben Stein 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.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Cassandra Clare Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins 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.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Buffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Carlton Cuse The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Mark Twain The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Herman Melville The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Horace The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bill Bryson There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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