Quotes About Thunder

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I'd been struck by lightning for lying.

thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold. It did not come again.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

Bowman, too, had been born in a great city, in the French Hospital in Manhattan, in the burning heat of August and very early in the morning when all geniuses are born, as Pearson once told him. There had been an unbreathing stillness, and near dawn faint, distant thunder. It grew slowly louder, then gusts of cooler air before a tremendous storm broke with lightning and sheets of rain, and when it was over

Sally put his gun back in his pants. Guess I flunked the estrogen test. We all stared at his crotch, and Grandma said what Lula and I were thinking. I thought that bulge was your dingdong,Grandma said. Jesus, Sally said, who do you think I am, Thunder the Wonder Horse? My gun wouldn't fit in my purse. You need to get a smaller gun, Lula said. Ruins your lines with that big old Glock in your drawers.

What is that curling flower of wonder As white as snow, as red as blood? When Death goes by in flame and thunder And rips the beauty from the bud.

Lightning flashed around the island; thunder played its favorite game of scaring the crap out of all the shivering mortals on the earth below.

The Shadow of the Emperor The Hooded One Who unmasked night Who laid the stars like paving stones Who rode the Thunderbolt Down the star-cobbled path into day Was Kane, The Emperor's twin Silent, as lightning is silent, Before the thunder speaks.

Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.

Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness. Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, tugged the boughs of the tree swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

Cause love won't let you let'm go." "But they want to go, that's the hurting part." "Like you tole the lap sitter this morning, Min, when you hurt, hurt. But when you see the chirren calling down thunder and going up in flames, Min. Why then you snatch you a blanket

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.

I AM THE GOD OF STORMS! I BRING THE THUNDER! I BRING THE LIGHTNING! STOOOP RAINING ON ME!

YES I SAID LIGHTNING! COWER BEFORE ME, BORING NORMAL DRAGONS!

The rain was pouring outside and he heard a crack of thunder. A moment later the accompanying lightning brightened his room briefly.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.

They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

The grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.