Friday 29 June 2012

Lightning

"The reason Lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time"...lol


It's like catching lightning, the chances of finding someone like you

 














Lightning strikes the Stature of Liberty 
















Lightning Quotes:-
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


A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

-James Dickey


And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

-Story Musgrave


And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

-Black Elk


Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

-John Turner


Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

-Charles Dickens


Electricity is really just organized lightning.

-George Carlin

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
-Sergei Eisenstein


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

-Franz Grillparzer


He must be lightning slow.

-Ron Atkinson


How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

-Lee Trevino


Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

-Samuel Butler


I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

-Eden Ahbez


I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.

-Kristen Bell


I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
-Oliver Stone

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

-Loretta Lynn


I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

-Howard Stern


I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

-Ken Kesey


I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.

-Lee Trevino


If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

-Lee Trevino
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
-Woodrow Wilson


Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

-Richard Branson


Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

-Richard Neal


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


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


Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

-Augustus Hare


Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

-Buffalo Bill


Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

-Hodding Carter


The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

-Lee Iacocca


The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

-Henri Cartier-Bresson


The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

-Mark Twain


The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

-Charles Eastman
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
-Horace


The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

-Mary Stewart


The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

-Rick Pitino


The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

-Willie Tyler


The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

-Annette Bening


The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

-Mark Twain
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
-Bill Bryson


They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

-Clint Eastwood


Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

-John Bauer


Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

-Mark Twain


We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

-Julian Assange


You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

-John Ruskin
 
 


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