Quotes by Lightning Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to. Harry Hershfield contradictinglightningstrikes It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes. Harriet Beecher Stowe lightningtreasureloss The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction. Henri Matisse lightningartistspring They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche lightningfiremouths A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes. Hermann Hesse steppenwolflightningstrikes I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do. Howard Stern irritatedlightningpeople Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. Horace lightningmountainstrikes Like vanishing dew, Ikkyu dewlightningself The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. Ivan Panin thunderlightninggone It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning. Ivan Panin lightningsilentroaring In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love. J. M. Coetzee lightningfalling-in-lovesight I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't. J. D. Salinger ignoredlightningnumbers Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning! J. R. R. Tolkien lightning A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. James Dickey lightningpoetryrain A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right. James Dickey lightningstormlucky Thought can wing its way James Gates Percival lightningwingsway Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love. James A. Baldwin lightningmaturitylove-is My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. James Otis dear-godlightningsister "Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze. Janet Morris lightningwarheaven Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion. Janet Evanovich jerseyarsonlightning«1234567891011»
