Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
With luck, you have other things to do than wait for lightning to strike.
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.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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.