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Lightning Strikes
«Living under a cloud of black...udder a single word and watch the lightning strike...feel the roar of the thunder. Periods of calm are like tears dripping from a rainbow...and life goes on.»
Author: Donna A. Favors
| Keywords:
drip, dripped, dripping, Lightning Strikes, roar, thunder, udder
«Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.»
«The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affections, fallen, lightning, Lightning Strikes, strike
«How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.»
Author: Lee Trevino
(Golfer)
| Keywords:
divorced, lightning, Lightning Strikes, operations, strike back, struck
«These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.»
Author: Potter Stewart
(Judge)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
Cruel and Unusual, Death sentence, Lightning Strikes, sentenced to death, sentences, unusual
«A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times»
Author: Randall Jarrell
| About:
Poets
| Keywords:
lightning, Lightning Strikes, manages, six times, struck, thunderstorm, thunderstorms
«The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.»
«The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.»
«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bolt, bolted, bolt of lightning, cars, car window, cities, confused, desert, driving, factories, head start, highway, imagining, in the middle, lightning, Lightning Strikes, stick, struck, window
