#lightning

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

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

#epiphany #expressed #flying #i #interest

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

— Richard Neal

#cords #dangers #deaths #electrical #extension

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

— Rick Pitino

#caught #game #great #guys #just

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

— Ken Kesey

#lightning #lightning rod #rather #rod #than

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

— John Ruskin

#english #get #incense #lightning #might

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

— Howard Stern

#irritate #just #know #lightning #lightning rod

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#astonishing #bolt #cell #cooled #derived

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist. ↗

— Jennifer Bosworth

#energy #funny #irony #lightning #sarcasm

Electricity is really just organized lighting ↗

— George Carlin

#electricity #freedom #humor #lightning #perspective