Lightning Bolts Quotes

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

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• Electricity is really just organized lightning.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

  Bill Watterson

  Religious, People, Religion

  "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1992.

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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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• We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.

  Robert Jordan

  Wind, Storm, Lightning

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.601, Macmillan

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• In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Talking, Sky

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• What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

  Julio Cortazar

  Life, Rain, Thinking

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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, May, Fields

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• If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

  Philip Yancey

  Tree, Lightning, Doctrine

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason — instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it’s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods.

  David Simon

  Selfish, Oedipus, People

  "Stealing Life" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2007.

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• The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

  Etta James

  Music, Feet, Joy

  Etta James, David Ritz (2003). “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story”, p.17, Da Capo Press

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• Whether it's a painter finding his way each morning to the easel, or a medical researcher returning daily to the laboratory, the routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightning bolt of inspiration, maybe more.

  Twyla Tharp

  Morning, Inspiration, Creative

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• The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.

  Carlton Cuse

  Discovery, Ideas, Roots

  "Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on the End (?) of Lost". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vulture.com. May 11, 2010.

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• There's a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he's a good conductor?

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Long

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Long, Hatred

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• In a recent dream, God revealed to me a door leading us into four new hopes that will prepare us to be like those who were healed and strengthened in hope and able to stand when the lightning bolt hit. We deal with these fissures of hopelessness by stepping into these new hopes. The four new hopes that I saw the Lord giving us in this time are: Hope for the Unseen, Hope Against Hope, Carefree Hope, and Childlike Hope.

  Bob Hartley

  Dream, Doors, Giving

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• Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening.

  Will Oldham

  Artist, Play, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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, Lightning

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.

  Christian Hosoi

  Dad, Lightning, Boards

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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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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• Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a paragraph, he ranges from hysterical to disgusting to touching--and does it all seamlessly. Sh*t My Dad Says is a really, really funny book.

  Laurie Notaro

  Dad, Laughter, Book

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• Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Dream, Kings, Rights

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• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Real

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• Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

  Megan McCafferty

  Lust, Lightning, Shots

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.348, Crown

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