Quotes by Lightning What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning! Cory Doctorow lightningwhat-iffighting People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning. Craig Ferguson lightningpeople But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? Dan Brown ignorantlightningmen Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place. Daniel Boone lightningstrikesdoe There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world. Daniel Webster lightningearthquakesmen There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and surviving, with really no disability or residual. So there are cases that I'm aware of where there's been some incident which triggered the acquired savant ability, but is not associated with long term disability, so that can occur. But I think that's probably the exception rather than the rule in that I think many of the acquired savants do end up with some residual disability. Darold Treffert lightninglongthinking I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much. Dave Barry higher-powerlightningpeople My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. David Duchovny lightningmistakedirectors Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back. Deb Caletti lightningsoccerfather The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything. Deepak Chopra lightningspacemoving I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. Dennis Miller gossiplightningcoins Hard to believe lightning can strike twice, but it surely did. The moment Caitriona Balfe came on screen, I sat up straight and said, ‘There she is!’ She and Sam Heughan absolutely lit up the screen with fireworks. Diana Gabaldon lightningmomentsbelieve If lightning strikes while you're in the car it's your fault. Doc Bundy lightningcarracing Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. Dogen dewlightningmorning Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. Don DeLillo lightningpainreality The moment of a miracle is unending lightning. Dylan Thomas lightningmiraclemoments The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. Edwin Hubbel Chapin lightninglandmen Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. Elihu Burritt oratorylightninggiving I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. Eliezer Yudkowsky resolutionlightningwonder how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. Elinor Glyn vowlightningpride«1234567891011»
