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Letter "L" » lightning
«There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.»
«They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.»
«The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.»
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
(Photographer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
box, brief, camera, fleeting, give and take, instant, lasts, lightning, prey, preyed, preying, preys, trap
«Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.»
Author: Hodding Carter
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
flash, in darkness, lighting-up, lightning, lights, loud, loud noise, television news
«The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.»
Author: Lee Iacocca
| About:
Affection
| Keywords:
affections, fallen, lightning, Lightning Strikes, strike
«The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
almost, bug, bugging, difference, lightning, lightning bug, The Bug, word
«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bolt, bolted, bolt of lightning, cars, car window, cities, confused, desert, driving, factories, head start, highway, imagining, in the middle, lightning, Lightning Strikes, stick, struck, window
«Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds»
«The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
lightning, lightning rod, protection, rod, spine, spines, The Spine
«These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; th»
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