Lightning Quotes
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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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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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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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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I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
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The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
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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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There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
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Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
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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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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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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
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The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
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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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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.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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I haven't got many tattoos, but the two that are most important to me are music tattoos. I have a black heart with a lightning bolt down the middle. And the black heart was for Manson and the lightning bolt down the middle was for David Bowie. I have black diamond with circles that keep swirling and swirling, and it's surrounded by sort of crazy diamonds because Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" really inspired me, and everybody's called me Crazy Diamond since I was a teenager, so it was always important to me.
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My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.
