#lightning

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

#always #attacks #attract #credit #criticism

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. ↗

— Jack Black

#beatles #commands #creative #fast #kids

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

— Buffalo Bill

#brain #dead #fell #his #lightning

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

#any #birds #bound #description #employing

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

— Richard Branson

#avoid #lightning #rather #something #which

Electricity is really just organized lightning. ↗

— George Carlin

#electricity #just #lightning #organized #really

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

— John Bauer

#lightning #never #sure #thunder #thunder and lightning

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#am #because #being #clouds #even

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

— Mark Twain

#fools #lightning #many #right #too

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

— Franz Grillparzer

#genius #lightning #like #resembles #sun