Top 95 Lightning Quotes

Most superhero shows are set in an alternative universe. ‘Black Lightning’ is literally in the hood. He’s going inside of the ghetto and trying to make a difference.

Having kids is something you can’t always do. Kids are like lightning. You grab that lightning when you can get it.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

I can’t ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It’s always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

Because of my political views, I’ve been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who’s too far out there.

If I see one kid dressed up like Thunder or Lightning or Black Lightning, I’ll feel like I influenced the culture in a very positive way. That’s the endgame for me. If this happens, my mission will be complete.

Duke has had many lightning rods over the years, it’s a long list of ’em, a long list of white Duke basketball players that have been lightning rods. I didn’t fully understand it before I came to Duke, but obviously I do now.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

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.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

You look at a song like ‘Lightning Crashes,’ and it’s just so universal.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

You’re more likely to see someone fatally struck by lightning than witness a case of in-person voter fraud.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

I think Uber is just very different; there’s no model to copy. It may be the reason why we’ve been a lightning rod in so many ways, because we don’t do anything conventional… And then I think also, as an entrepreneur, I’m a bit of a lone wolf.

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.

When you’re playing a superhero, you’re almost playing two different people. I separate when I’m playing Jefferson Pierce and the days when I’m playing Black Lightning.

He must be lightning slow.

We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.

We all know the dangers of sequels. Lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place too often, and I think you’ve got to move beyond it, go the extra mile and have the courage not to just repeat the first one.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

I think the fact that ‘Black Lightning,’ ‘Luke Cage’ and ‘Black Panther’ have each made noise in their own way will only lead to different superheroes and different genres.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

Once in a blue moon, everything will be right with the man in the sky, and when I start singing ‘I Love a Rainy Night,’ from out of nowhere, there will be lightning and thunder. I just say, ‘Folks, we’ve got the best special effects guy in the world, so let’s get wet together.’

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.

I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long’s Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot.

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

Today’s action hero, his skills are through technology. He can fly, he can throw a bolt of lightning, he can freeze people.

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.

One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially – if they’re successful, it’s kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.

Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: ‘Call the fire department,’ ‘Get your fire extinguishers out, ladies.’ ‘By the time you hear the thunder, it’s going to be too late because the lightning will have already struck.’ That was all my thing.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, ‘Cairo,’ sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

I am extremely concerned that Syrian and ISIS recruiters can use the Internet at lightning speeds to recruit followers in the United States with thousands of followers in the United States and then activate them to do whatever they want to do.

When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

If I’m walking down the street or taking my kids trick-or-treating, and I see some young girls or boys who are dressed up like Black Lightning, that, to me, would be success.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Conan O’Brien’s the best. I’m glad he’s in L.A. because I want to move in with him. I was a guest on that show one time to promote ‘Human Giant,’ and he was the coolest, funniest guy. I was really impressed. He’s also eight feet tall and can shoot lightning from his fingertips.

For years, I’ve had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

The other guys just caught lightning in a bottle with a great game.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it’s like catching lightning in a bottle. It’s the best part of what we do.

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.

In a lot of ways I would love to be another student and love to be looked at as a Duke student and a senior and psych major and someone on the basketball team instead of Duke’s polarizing, lightning rod, Grayson Allen villain, all those types of things.

I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I’m doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to ‘Harry Potter’ because it’s like lightning in a bottle.

A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I’m the first person to play Black Lightning. It’s exciting to originate a character.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

‘The Karate Kid’ was just lightning in a bottle. The second movie is a very worthy sequel, because you got to explore the Okinawan culture and learned about Miyagi’s life. The third, as is always the case, was made because the second one made a lot of money.