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Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.


Robert Littell

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MARK TWAIN Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strik...
DAVID HORSEY The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Attacking a lightning rod doesn't make you lightning…
T. RAFAEL CIMINO 'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is t...
JOHN LASSETER So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.
HARRY HARRISON He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.
KEVIN ADAMS He said, 'Is there a Cherie here?' ... and I'm waiting for the lightning bolt to come.
KEVIN ADAMS What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of li...
CORY DOCTOROW It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm
PHYLLIS BOTTOME I'm 5 o'clock lightning, for sure.
DREW POMERANZ The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI My dear, he sounds like all plug and no spark to me, you know, all bug and no lightning
BILL BALANCE The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
ABERJHANI It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
BIBLE He said you didn't notice you've got burn marks on your shirt, the lightning actually struck you.
JADE STONE Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
SAMUEL BUTLER Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
USAIN BOLT Electricity is really just organized lightning
GEORGE CARLIN Fire and lightning raised Maven up, and fire and lightning will bring him down.
VICTORIA AVEYARD Lightning Crashes
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Both the 'Gregor' series and 'The Hunger Games' are what I call lightning-bolt ideas...
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MARSHALL WITTMANN It's like being struck by lightning.
GERALDINE BROOKS If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN be a lightning rod because of who she is.
MICHAEL REAGAN It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't dis...
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
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Clara: What?

Tucker: I won't get struck by lig...
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FIDELIS ONYENYIRI For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Lightning hides the colour of night
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STEVEN MAGEE The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law
MARY STEWART Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.
UNKNOWN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY When you can use the lightning it is better than cannon
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it's the lightning does the work.
MARK TWAIN Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD The dousing wand The lightning rod Conductor's baton Will's aligned spine They find the water, invok...
SAIOM SHRIVER Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sur...
JOHN BAUER Lightning in a Bottle.
ANTOINE FUQUA One of the things that lightning does is to remove electrons from the radiation belts.
PROFESSOR UMRAN INAN Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
RICHARD BRANSON Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse- power of the understanding.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
MARK TWAIN The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' fro...
AUGUSTE COMTE Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even af...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
ORLANDO A. BATTISTA He must be lightning slow
RON ATKINSON Lightning never strikes twice (in the same place)
PROVERB As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
EMILY BRONTë Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
FRANZ GRILLPARZER I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.
GEORGE HERBERT What about you? Girlfriend? Wife? Kids? Perhaps a gaggle of towheaded, extra large boys who already ...
JULIE JAMES Everyone at the club feels for Kevin as once is bad enough but for lightning to strike twice is unbe...
GEZ BAGGOTT Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the work
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JOHN TURNER I was lucky because when I'd done 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,&#...
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CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.
RICK PITINO And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
BLACK ELK Lightning doesn't strike through a cave
GOITSEMANG MVULA When we bumped into Belle, the story is very romantic. She was very involved in society. Belle — th...
GLENN RUMMLER He has the attention span of a lightning bolt
ROBERT REDFORD No, I'm not even thinking about the lightning incident,
RETIEF GOOSEN We caught lightning in a bottle.
BRUCE BOCHY Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning
THEODOR REIK Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
THEODOR REIK Lightning rod to ignite people's passion for software development
JOHN NAVA I’m not looking for anything, but who knows. Lightning is weird.
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