Lightning Quotes - Page 4

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

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

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

He must be lightning slow.

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.

You realize how many times lightning has to strike in order for you to be sitting here?

LSU would be a good place to stand during a lightning storm.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

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

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

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

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed? Behold, I show you the Superman. He is this lightning, he is this madness.