A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Randall Jarrell
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey
And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
Story Musgrave
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk
Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.
John Turner
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
George Carlin
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
Sergei Eisenstein
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
He must be lightning slow.
Ron Atkinson
How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Lee Trevino
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler
I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
Eden Ahbez
I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
Kristen Bell
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Oliver Stone
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.
Loretta Lynn
I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.
Howard Stern
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Ken Kesey
I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years.
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
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