Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billie Joe Armstrong

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

E. F. Benson

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

Mike Utley

The problem with lightning is, it kills 10 percent of the people it strikes. The 90 percent that live wish they didn't.

Jack Straw

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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

Ben Mendelsohn

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

Harry Harrison

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

Said Nursi

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

Ernie Kovacs

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dave Reynolds

One thing about them is neither one will give up. They're tenacious, they really are.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

Alana Blanchard

Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.

Bill Hayden

Stock kernels will be the norm for some time.

Timothy Noah

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

Evangeline Lilly

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Khloe Kardashian

I normally like to do a lip pencil and then fill it in with the same pencil because it stays on all day, and you don't have to reapply it.

Jane Austen

The less said the better.

Miley Cyrus

I don't have a normal life.

David Hockney

I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

Frederic Bastiat

You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

Denzel Washington

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God there is rain?

Diana Gabaldon

The overseer wouldna speak to me of Ian, but he told me other things that would curl your hair, if it wasna already curled up like sheep's wool." He glanced at me, and a half-smile lit his face, inspite of his obvious perturbation. "Judging by the state of your hair, Sassenach, I should say that it's going to rain verra soon now.

Alain de Botton

Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

Al Gore

Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German scientists published in Climatic Change projects that extreme precipitation will increase significantly in regions that are already experiencing extreme rainfall. Man-made global warming has already increased the moisture content of the air worldwide, causing bigger downpours. Each additional degree of temperature increase causes another seven percent increase in moisture in the air, and even larger downpours when storm conditions trigger heavy rains and snows.

Alexandra Fuller

The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

Alexandra Adornetto

There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargaining—anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldn’t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.

Alanis Morissette

How about not equating death with stopping?

Isaiah Tucker

We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.

Enrico Colantoni

You know what, I'm a big, big fan of 'Heroes,' but the day they told me that the end of the world was coming, and that day didn't come, I stopped watching.

Joe Spraggins

We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Alastair Reynolds

One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

Barbara Warren

She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking,

Kevin Nursick

Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Bob Goldstein

We're not here to stop development or impede it in any way,