Lightning Quotes

• Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  B. Alan Wallace (2001). “Buddhism with an Attitude: The Tibetan Seven-point Mind-training”, Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated

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• 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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• 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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• Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

  William Gibson

  Long, Enough

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• The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

  Avicenna

  Brilliant, Disappear

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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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• Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Time Passes, Knows

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

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Genius, Flash

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• Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

  Eric Mackay

  Nature, Environmental, Storm

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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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• Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.

  Harry Hershfield

  Contradicting, Strikes

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• Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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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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• 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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• Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

  Edward Abbey

  Clouds, Air, Weather

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.107, University of Arizona Press

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• Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike.

  William Parrish

  Strikes, Knows

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jack Black

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Men, Littles

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2811, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Stars, Rocks, Years

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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