#thunder

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#earthquake #fire #gentle #light #need

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. ↗

— Alfred Jarry

#audience #comes #excuse #force #merely

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#about #compulsory #go #like #lovely

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. ↗

— Thomas Starr King

#california #came #cotton #down #flag

The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#artillery #crashing #deep #effect #extraordinary

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#even #fairway #god #hit #hold

I go where the sound of thunder is. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#i #sound #thunder #where

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. ↗

— Maximilian Schell

#beautiful #beethoven #elements #i #i think

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#budget #campaign #clash #combat #consequence

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#clock #during #fortune #frightened #go