Quotes of Lightning - somelinesforyou

“ I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. ”

- Ken Kesey

“ The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. ”

- Willie Tyler

“ Electricity is really just organized lightning. ”

- George Carlin

“ The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure. ”

- John Bauer

“ The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. ”

- Ivan Panin

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

- Lao tzu

“ It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning. ”

- Ivan Panin

“ God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Brief as the lightning in the collied night,That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth;And ere a man can say — Behold!The jaws of darkness devour it up. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is vain to look for a defense against lightning. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled. ”

- Berthold Auerbach

“ The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

“ He had a quality of sexual lightning. ”

- Shelley Winters

“ If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. ”

- Lee Trevino

“ Thunder and lightning among the clouds are matched by storms of passion within me as terrible as they. ”

- Frank Crane

“ It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. ”

- Voltaire

“ They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder,In the most terrible and nimble strokeOf quick, cross lightning. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place. ”

- Daniel Boone

“ To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm. ”

- John Dryden

“ The thunder and the lightning are inseparable. ”

- Apocrypha

“ Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free. ”

- Seneca

“ Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Lightning never strikes twice in the same place — it doesn't have to. ”

- Harry Hershfield

“ Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,Ere one can say — It lightens! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I done handcuffed lightningAnd throw thunder in jailYou know I'm bad. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies. ”

- Eden Ahbez
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