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Lightning Quotes - Page 6

Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

"Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.150, Indiana University Press

All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.47, Fordham University Press

Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.37

We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

Robert Jordan (2010). “Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.601, Macmillan

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.45, Penguin

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.85, University of Chicago Press