Lightning Quotes - Page 2

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

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

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

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

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

You gotta eat lightning and crap thunder!

The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

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

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.