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Quotes About Thunder

Thunder Rolls bowling alley
~ Kathleen Bacus
Lightning, but not bright. Thunder, but not loud. Sometimes something in the sky connects to something in the ground in ways we don't expect and more or less miss except through reverse drama: things were heightened and now they're calmer. -- Reverse Drama
~ Kay Ryan
Sottoportico San Zaccaria" It rains on the roofs As it rains in my poems Under the thunder We fit together like parts Of a magic puzzle Twelve winds beat the gulls from the sky And tear the curtains And lightning glisters On your sweating breasts Your face topples into dark And the wind sounds like an army Breaking through dry reeds We spread our aching bodies in the window And I can smell the odor of hay In the female smell of Venice
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring.
~ Kenneth W. Estes
Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.
~ C. H. Spurgeon
Woyzeck Yes, Captain, virtue! That I haven't figured out yet. I'm just a poor guy. The likes of us are wretched in this world and the next. If we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help make the thunder.
~ Georg Buchner
Unsereins ist doch einmal unselig in der und der andern Welt, ich glaub´ wenn wir in Himmel kämen, so müssten wir donnern helfen.
~ Georg Buchner
Sometimes the nearness of a storm may deafen us to distant thunder.
~ Susan Weiner
life is full of wonders, but you ca't have rainbows without rain, lightning and thunder
~ O. S. Hickman
The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting
~ Munia Khan
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
~ Eubie Blake
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
~ Truman Capote
I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon," Quincy said, "the thunders roll, and the lightnings play, and to that God who rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm I commit my country.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
You can whisper, and people will still hear thunder.
~ Neal Shusterman
Many believe that the Thunder refers to a collection of human knowledge-perhaps with mechanical arms for the rapid turning of pages. A library of thought, if you will, roaring into consciousness after the arrival of the Toll on Earth, much like thunder follows lightning.
~ Neal Shusterman
To calculate the distance of the storm, count the number of seconds (one Mississippi…two Mississippi…three Mississippi…) between the flash of lightning and the thunder. Then divide by five. You now know how many miles away the storm is.
~ Kevin Callan
Distant thunder sounded on and off throughout the evening and occasionally a heavier roll would cause them to stare out beyond the windows.
~ Kevin Wignall
I'm alone all day. In the afternoon, thunder... the sky stitches together the loose scraps of dark.
~ Kim Addonizio
Breakers. Ian was the president of the Miami Thunder. Half brothers.
~ Carly Phillips
The sound of thunder, the smell of rain. The earth giving birth to another season. Nature's labor pains...beautiful.
~ Carol Morgan
For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.
~ George R.R. Martin
When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am Thunder and Thunder is me, we are one beast, we are joined, we are one.
~ George R.R. Martin