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

  Avicenna

  Brilliant, Disappear

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• Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

  William Gibson

  Long, Enough

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

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Time Passes, Knows

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

  Harry Hershfield

  Contradicting, Strikes

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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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• Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike.

  William Parrish

  Strikes, Knows

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

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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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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• 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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• If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thunder, Ifs

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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