Lightning Quotes - Page 21

• My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Eye, Son

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans.

  Mark Haddon

  People, Rainbow, Brain

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time". Book by Mark Haddon, May, 2003.

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• Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fall, Heart, Sky

  Gustave Flaubert (2015). “Greatest Works of Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, Senitmental Education, November, A Simple Heart, Herodias and more”, p.89, e-artnow

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• Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Scott Fitzgerald

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• We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

  Julio Cortazar

  Serendipity, Attention, Analogies

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• I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Dumb, Doe

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• because you always have a clock strapped to your body, it's natural that i should think of you as the correct time: with your long blonde hair at 8:03, and your pulse-lightning breasts at 11:17, and your rose-meow smile at 5:30, i know i'm right.

  Richard Brautigan

  Thinking, Hair, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted out in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Believe, Heart, Boys

  "Ptolemy's Gate". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September, 2005.

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• Suttree stood among the screaming leaves and called the lightning down. It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the weathers of this earth. Or char these bones to coal. If you can, if you can. A blackened rag in the rain.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Art, Rain, Weather

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.440, Pan Macmillan

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• These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

  Potter Stewart

  Way, Unusual, Death Sentence

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• The notion that I had become a political lightning rod was painful for me to experience.

  Susan Rice

  Political, Painful, Notion

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.

  Michelle Gielan

  Retirement, Morning, Jobs

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Pain is usually represented by lightning attacking the guy. Glowing redness is also popular. Sometimes parts of the guy would just burst into flames.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Pain, Glowing, Flames

  "Jerry Seinfeld: 'I'm Telling You for the Last Time'". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.

  Drew Goddard

  Inspiration, Careers, Ideas

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Style, Middle East

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• You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

  Bill Cosby

  Winning, Tickets, Chance

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• 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.

  Bob Colacello

  Artist, Names, Firsts

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Dark, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Hellenism & Pessimism – 3 Unbeatable Philosophy Books in One Volume: The Birth of Tragedy”, p.153, e-artnow

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• And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!

  Thomas Carlyle

  War, Light, Ships

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• I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Fighting, Voice

  "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". Speech delivered at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1967.

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• The only thing I fear on a golf course is lightning...and Ben Hogan.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Golf Course, Courses

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• What children
  and the landing of a plane
  most have in common
  is that they are best made
  by a line drive of pilot lights guided
  through a single tambourine
  across the day we met
  in a field of wet metal hands on The Gospel of Lightning.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Children, Light, Hands

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• There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

  Edward Albee

  Acceptance, Two, People

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Ernest Fenollosa

  Type, Flash, Sentences

  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

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