Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike.
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.
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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