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Quotes About Lightning

They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All night sheetlightning quaked sourceless to the west beyond the midnight thunderheads, making a bluish day of the distant desert, the mountains on the sudden skyline stark and black and livid like a land of some other order out there whose true geology was not stone but fear.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place n the iron dark of the world
~ Cormac McCarthy
The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at one another. Shrouded in the black thunderheads the distant lightning glowed mutely like welding seen through foundry smoke. As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Lightning stood in ragged chains far to the south, silent, the staccato mountains bespoken blue and barren out of the void.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They watch stoms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Someone had reported the judge naked atop the walls, immense and pale in the revelations of lightning, striding the perimeter up there and declaiming in the old epic mode.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Stark gray world appeared again and again out of the night in the shrouded flare of the lightning.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!
~ Cory Doctorow
O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.
~ Walt Whitman
Electrical fluid is attracted by points. We do not know whether this property is in lightning. But since they agree in all particulars wherein we can already compare them, is it not probable they agree likewise in this?" To which he added a momentous rallying cry: "Let the experiment be made.
~ Walter Isaacson
How, exactly, did I kill him? He died on the golf course." One minute he'd been practicing his swing, and in the next—phzzt—a freak lightning bolt had hit him right in the nine iron. His shoes were still smoking when she reached him.
~ Cheryl Sterling
He don't have no orgies," he said. "How do you know?" "Nobody's never had no orgies in Merridale. It's in the town code. If you have an orgy, you get hit by lightning." "Bullshit," said Fred Hibbs. "You ever read the town code?
~ Chet Williamson
I follow the scent of falling rain And head for the place where it is darkest I follow the lightning And draw near to the place where it strikes —NAVAJO CHANT
~ Hampton Sides
Throughout the farming areas of Ohio, for instance, almost every little barn and building had an elaborate lightning conductor; there was an amazing number of these rods bristling on buildings throughout the state. Now, compared with any of the other neighboring states, Ohio is not more subject to lightning: it seemed to me that the enterprise of some persuasive salesman had left its mark. Of
~ Harold Gatty
Penis Maaaaan! Able to leap tall buildings … owing mostly to his profound motivation not to get snagged on a lightning rod.
~ Laurie Frankel
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
~ lazarus emma ii
When I'm on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, 'caus I know even God can't hit a one iron
~ Lee Trevino
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
~ Lee Trevino
If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
~ Lee Trevino
A bolt from the blue.
~ Lemony Snicket
The expression 'a bold from the blue' describes something so surprising that i makes you head spin, your legs wobble, and your body buzz with astonishment - as if a bold of lightening suddenly came down from a clear blue sky and struck you at full force. Unless you are a lightbulb, an electrical appliance, or a tree that is tired of standing upright, encountering a bold from the blue is not a pleasant experience.
~ Lemony Snicket
Count Olaf has been captured," she said, and the Baudelaires felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck them once more.
~ Lemony Snicket
Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.
~ Janet Evanovich