Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Avicenna

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you ride like lightning, you're gonna crash like thunder.

E. F. Benson

Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

Jack Straw

The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,

Billie Joe Armstrong

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Herb Trimpe

Teaching is like flying a plane. You leave school one day feeling like you're spiraling down toward the trees, expecting that the next day the crash will come. You brace yourself for the impact, only to find that things have leveled out at treetop height, and you climb and enjoy the remainder of the flight.

Ken Tower

There is no person on the planet who is going to be able to fill Greenspan's spot without a test, ... I'm not sure that it's a coincidence that the market crash of 1987 happened two months after Greenspan took office.

James Cornish

Unfortunately Mr. Burke lost his life in this crash and others were injured. I am satisfied that the officer's driving fell well within the limits prescribed by the criminal law.

Quincy Douby

As soon as he let it go, I'm looking to get the rebound and hopefully get fouled. But as soon as I turned around to crash the boards, it went right through the net. That was a tough shot that he hit.

Gregory Reynolds

All of us have voiced the opinion that there's going to be a crash here. Somebody's going to be killed. And yesterday, that happened.

Brent Johnson

It's just one of those things. They get a lot of shots to the net, and they crash and you've just got to keep their rebounds away from their guys going to the net.

Scott Ashley

They played good defense and they were able to crash the boards, and their scorers got open.

Johan Bruyneel

It's nothing serious. He actually fell on the tarmac. There is not much you can do when a crash takes place just in front of you. In the first week of the Tour, riders are very nervous and you must be especially careful.

Marshall Strickland

They are a real physical team, more than most people probably realize or give them credit for. Batista is the main guy but they have others who also crash the boards. We're small. We can shoot. But when Marco is out, we don't have a lot of options.

Fadel Gheit

BP is more fat. Exxon is all muscle. Exxon stole the thunder this quarter.

John Bauer

Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure.

Rio Ferdinand

It hit me like a thunderbolt!

Ted Nugent

I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.

Terry Pratchett

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

Dan Peitz

If the track is muddy, that won't be a problem. I just don't want him out there if there is thunder and lightning.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.