Lightning Speed Quotes

#1. [on camp:]
There were ten of us, living in a three-hundred-square-foot bunk, going through puberty as lightning speed. It was too much hormonal action for any one room, and the result was a frenzied, emotionally volatile space that smelled like a Bath and Body Works.

Lena Dunham

#2. We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.

Walter Kirn

#3. Yes, right, and the earth is flat," I replied. Stupidly, I said it out loud. Everyone else at the table looked at me, taken aback.
"No, Gwenny, the earth is a globe," Caroline kindly told me. "I couldn't believe it at first, either. But apparently it flies through the universe at lightning speed.

Kerstin Gier

#4. Words of love cast from thy lips reach another heart at lightning speed.

Molly Friedenfeld

#5. The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Eduardo Galeano

#6. The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

Juvenal

#7. I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. The truth is always of use, madonna," he answered, eyes fixed on the slender stream. "It has the value of rarity, you know.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. Speed of lightning! Roar of thunder! Fighting all who rob or plunder! Underdog!

Jim Butcher

#10. Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

Flavius Josephus

#11. When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

Leonard Cohen

#12. Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Moliere

#13. Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

Steven Wright

#14. I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

Ben Kingsley

#15. The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

Stendhal

#16. The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset's gardens the vivid clusters of flowers had begun to bloom with an abandon that assaulted the eyes and filled the nostrils with delight.

Pauline Gedge

#17. Hadley Grayson is my lightning, my speed, my hearts, my candy.
I've never tried any of my own products and I'm glad I haven't.
It might have reduced my tolerance for happy.

Amanda Lance

#18. Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

#19. I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of wind, Depth of sea, Stability of earth, Firmness of rock.

Saint Patrick

#20. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Blaise Pascal

#21. An advertising campaign should be timely.

A branding campaign should be timeless.

Steven Howard

#22. C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre (attributed to a French observer during the Charge of the Light

Thomas Pynchon

#23. As I read the scriptures, it appears that those who receive the Savior's strongest reproach are often those who hold themselves in high esteem because of their wealth, influence, or perceived righteousness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. Ninety percent of the game (baseball) is half mental.

Yogi Berra