Lightning Quotes
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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!
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
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Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
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I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
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The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.
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The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
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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.
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Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
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Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.
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There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration and awe- - that is described by the torrent, the flame, and every other instance of irresistible impetuosity.
