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DeLay has been a lightning rod for people for the last three or four years.

Gary Keith

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.

Theodor Reik

Lightning really does strike twice for some people, especially if you were found to owe large adjustments in the past.

Frederick Daily

The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.

Lewis Thomas

One of the things that lightning does is to remove electrons from the radiation belts.

Professor Umran Inan

One thing that keeps people away is they think people might make fun of them or that lightning will strike.

Rev. Bert Cramer

They contacted her soon after she returned from Hot Springs. They really moved lightning-quick.

Anita Barker

We've had reports of hail in the Champions area, lots of lightning. It's a dangerous storm.

Frank Billingsley

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Lee Iacocca

We are anticipating a wind and dry lightning event this weekend. So, we're gearing up for that.

Tom Efird

He must be lightning slow.

Ron Atkinson

I'm happy with the split. It's kind of like thunder and lightning back there.

Lance Hinson

This clap of lightning went boom! It was like somebody had shot him. The lightning went right through him... It was horrible.

Judy Thompson

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

Mary Stewart

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The ignition source is all going to have to be human. It's not a case of lightning striking.

Chuck Maxwell

We're not sure of the cause, but there was severe lightning in the area.

Roger Nicholson

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

Billie Joe Armstrong

He had landed the 'thunder and lightning', but to no avail...Ingo was a very good boxer, but I won't fib, he wasn't great.

Bert Sugar

It was the biggest lightning strike and the loudest one I've ever seen.

Sarah Thompson

You're much more likely to be attacked by lightning or by your own toilet than you are by a shark.

Peter Benchley

It's like being struck by lightning.

Geraldine Brooks

Be a lightning rod because of who she is.

Michael Reagan

He was set up by the Liberals, and he's being set up by the Conservatives, as the lightning rod for public discontent if this mission should go really sour. It's not his call.

David Rudd

Air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.

James Albert

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Harry Harrison

What's the value of two large trees that got knocked over due to lightning?

Bernie Kent

The lightning was so bad, and the field conditions were so bad ... it was just a bad situation.

Richard Oliver

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain

Scripps is like having lightning in a bottle. Now that we've harnessed that energy, we need to make it all happen.

Mary Mccarty

We'll need to be cautious with the potential for lightning, but with the moisture maybe it'll all even out.

Maria Garcia

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Mark Twain

You can see this is where the lightning went down the back of both legs.

Marty Matzelle

We're expecting a cold front to come through, which would generate thunderstorm activity and dry lightning. The meteorologists are saying there would be little moisture.

Fred Naeher

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug.

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

His demonstration that lightning was not supernatural had huge impact.

Dudley Herschbach

There wasn't any lightning in the area at the time so that's what led to the investigation.

Christie Kalkowski

It was most probably an accident. Lightning could have struck or it could have been (caused by) the condition of the explosives there.

Vidal Querol

The weathers not too bad. Weve had a bit of everything this morningthunder, lightning, rain, fog, sunshine, clouds.

Steven Bennett

I think that the Republican Party realizes that he is a divisive figure and a lightning rod for controversy.

Randall Ellis

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Phyllis Bottome

People living on some of the islands of the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language.

Hugh Christian

We was riding, the sun was shining and we were laughing and giggling, ... In comes a storm and five minutes later, he was hit by lightning.

Chris Clark

The travel wears you down, it really does. But they (the Lightning) had to travel far to get here, too, and they're not used to the time difference. It all evens out.

Nils Ekman

A near-hit bolt of lightning can create a lot more Christian thinking than a long-winded sermon.

Duane Dewel

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

Lee Trevino

He's going to be a superstar. He's like a flash of lightning.

Ray Gant

We saw the lightning through the window, but when I heard the explosive noise, I had no idea.

Delores Gonzalez

It struck like lightning. I found 400 bodies and the other were already very sick.

Daniel Clair

I've never got beside one and run with it. But usually when they make a burst for the water, it's lightning fast.

Greg Long

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Potter Stewart

It's a horrible freak accident. Apparently, a lightning bolt struck the mine.

Wilbur Ross

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Robert Redford

Colin didn't know the position of his ball well enough at the time (in Indonesia). I think he was angry and wanted to go in and complain. He felt (because of the lightning) he should have been called in earlier.

Jamie Spence

She's not a lightning rod. I was concerned that the president might send up someone who just automatically would bring about a filibuster, but he didn't do that.

Robert C. Byrd

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

Bill Bryson

We had very high winds and rain. There was lightning in the area. The ref was thinking about stopping the game. It was really, really hard to do anything. But we ran the ball very effectively.

Don Strock

There's a lot more to racing than winning. (Greased Lightning) sees that, too. They know it's not easy to go out there and win the first year out.

Tim Bainey Jr

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

My dear, he sounds like all plug and no spark to me, you know, all bug and no lightning.

Bill Balance

We're expecting a cold front to come through, which will generate thunderstorm activity and dry lightning. And the meteorologists were saying that there would be little moisture.

Fred Naeher

He had a quality of sexual lightning.

Shelly Winters

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

John Turner

The weather was not too bad but there was lightning, and an airplane struck by lightning could lose total control.

Fidelis Onyenyiri

These guys had not really done anything wrong. They did everything they were supposed to. Lightning is such a capricious instrument.

William Tweed

She was the president when the board did all those things. She's the lightning rod.

Peter Downs

The lightning went straight into them and killed them instantly.

Eduardo Suarez

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

Eden Ahbez