#lightning

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

— Horace

#fall #heavier #high #highest #highest mountain

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

— Lee Iacocca

#cannot #fallen #lightning #like #strike

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

— Mark Twain

#between #bug #difference #lightning #right

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

#cheerfulness #clouds #daylight #fills #flash

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

— Eden Ahbez

#being #earth #galaxies #heaven #i

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

#angeles #anything #depends #friends #fun

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

#always #bottle #catch #feel #find

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

— Samuel Butler

#dew #evanescent #flash #human #human life

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

— Clint Eastwood

#heaven #lightning #made #marriages #say

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

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i