#lightning

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

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

#lifetime #lightning #man #manages #out

The forest has shrunk And fear has expanded, The forests have dwindled, There are less animals now, less courage and less lightning, less beauty and the moon lies bare, deflowered by force and then abandoned. ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#beauty #courage #fear #forests #lightning

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

#black #bright #bursts #cloud #coming

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #independent-thought #lightning #lightning-rod

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#lightning #nature #rain #thunder #wind

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#lightning #humor

It’s so peaceful. I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a dizzying second I wasn’t thinking about sleep or storms but about pressing my lips to his. I gave my head a slight shake and tried to slow my pulse ↗

— J.M. Richards

#angst #angsty-love #best-author #chilvery #favorite-books

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#because #best #best part #bottle #catching

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

— Lee Iacocca

#cannot #fallen #lightning #like #strike