Lightning Quotes - Page 3

• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Alcohol, Cleaning

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)

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• I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

  Loretta Lynn

  Bugs, Diamond Rings, Fingers

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

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Incense, Might

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

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• 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

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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• There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

  Bill Bryson

  Age, Rolling Along, Three

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Apr 07, 2015

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• How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Workout, Two

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• I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

  Kristen Bell

  Fun, Mean, Rocks

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• We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand," he said, "I get undue credit.

  Julian Assange

  Organization, Hands, Criticism

  "WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange dismisses reports of internal strife" by Atika Shubert, www.cnn.com. October 25, 2010.

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

  John Turner

  Views, Political, Political View

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• I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Marine, Years

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• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

  Story Musgrave

  Military, People, Flying

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Contradicting, Danger, Strikes

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “The Window at the White Cat”, p.225, The Floating Press

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Awful

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.163, Everyman's Library

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• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Dream, Shadow

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• The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Diversity, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• 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.

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Bird, Landscape, Waterfalls

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Richard Neal

  Understanding, Lines, Injury

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• They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

  Clint Eastwood

  Funny, Sarcastic, Heaven

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Regret, Writing, Writing History

  Attributed in Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1937. This is the earliest documented evidence for this quotation, and it appears unlikely to be authentic. Marjorie Brown King, the last survivor among the people at the 1915 screening, said that Wilson walked out of the room afterwards without comment. However, at least the first part of the quotation may have been associated with Wilson as early as February 1915. According to a 2004 article by Arthur Lennig, the New York American, 28 Feb. 1915, quoted B

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

  Buffalo Bill

  Brain, Bills, Stranger

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.128, U of Nebraska Press

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• Love is a war of lightning,
  and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.
  Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity,
  your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages,
  and a genital fire, transformed by delight,
  slips through the narrow channels of blood
  to precipitate a nocturnal carnation,
  to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.

  Pablo Neruda

  War, Dark, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda, “‘carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon,’”

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• His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

  Henry James

  Kissing, White, Sensual

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.1769, Delphi Classics

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• Who sings of all of Love's eternity
  Who shines so bright
  In all the songs of Love's unending spells?
  Holy lightning strikes all that's evil
  Teaching us to love for goodness sake.
  Hear the music of Love Eternal
  Teaching us to reach for goodness sake.

  Jon Anderson

  Life, Song, Teaching

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• We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

  Norman Mailer

  Heart, Past, Together

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Ancient Evenings: A Novel”, p.793, Random House

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