Lightning Quotes

• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Eden Ahbez

  Rain, Wind, Heaven

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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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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Genius, Flash

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• And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

  Black Elk

  Breaths

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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

  William Tyler

  Time, Reason, Strikes

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• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  Samuel Butler

  Morning, Dew, Life Is

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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.

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Poetry, Six

  1953 Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

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• The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

  Horace

  Fall, Fate, Light

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 261-65, Carmina, II. 10. 9, 1922.

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• It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Regret, Writing, Writing History

  Attributed in Scribner's Magazine, Nov. 1937. This is the earliest documented evidence for this quotation, and it appears unlikely to be authentic. Marjorie Brown King, the last survivor among the people at the 1915 screening, said that Wilson walked out of the room afterwards without comment. However, at least the first part of the quotation may have been associated with Wilson as early as February 1915. According to a 2004 article by Arthur Lennig, the New York American, 28 Feb. 1915, quoted B

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• The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

  Lee Iacocca

  Affection, Economy, Strikes

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• We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

  Norman Mailer

  Heart, Past, Together

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Ancient Evenings: A Novel”, p.793, Random House

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

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.1053, Penguin

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• Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Alcohol, Cleaning

  'Nicholas Nickleby' (1839) ch. 49 (The Gentleman in the Small-clothes)

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• A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

  James Dickey

  Rain, Poetry, Poetic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Fear, Character

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

  Rumi

  Sky, Take Me, Your Presence

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• How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Workout, Two

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• Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

  Joseph Addison

  Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

  'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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• I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

  Howard Stern

  People, Irritated, Knows

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• The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

  Mary Stewart

  Law, Mills

  Mary Stewart (1981). “Touch not the cat”, Fawcett Books

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• Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

  Richard Neal

  Understanding, Lines, Injury

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• He must be lightning slow.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football, Athlete

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

  Ken Kesey

  Motivational, Literature, Kool Aid

  "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, (Ch. I : Black Shiny FBI Shoes), 1968.

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