LIGHTNING QUOTES II
quotations about lightning
oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
LIVE
"Lightning Crashes", Throwing Copper
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.
DANIEL BOONE
attributed, Day's Collacon
I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. This majestic performance of bad temper manages to overshadow my pathetic attempts at pouting. No one broods like Mother Nature, hence she steals all the attention I was sulking after.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Smile Anyway
Like the lightning, which doth cease to be,
Ere one can say--It lightens!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Romeo and Juliet
It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
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
Ancient Evenings
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail
You know I'm bad
MUHAMMAD ALI
a poem written after his match with George Foreman, 1974
The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AVICENNA
attributed, Day's Collacon
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.
EMMA GOLDMAN
"Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", Anarchism and Other Essays
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place--it doesn't have to.
HARRY HERSHFIELD
Now I'll Tell One
The lightning flashing in the heavens is like the fire of musketry from a hostile army.
CORA AGNEW
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN
Twain: Wit and Wisecracks
To flattering lightning our feign'd smiles conform,
Which, back'd with thunder, do but gild a storm.
JOHN DRYDEN
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN
Napalm & Silly Putty
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
PHILIP YANCEY
Disappointment with God
In the dark clouds the sharp flashes of impulsive lightning are born.
ELIS WYN
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
FLAMMARION
attributed, The Alkaloidal Clinic, Volume 12
Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.
WILLIE TYLER
attributed, Seventeenth Century Review