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.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The guys we were stealing from in The Wire are the Greeks. In our heads we`re writing a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it`s the Postmodern institutions that are...
David Simon
You can`t blame the actor [for a film`s failure]. It`s not math. It`s like catching lightning in a bottle. On Orlando Bloom and his role in Elizabethtown (2005).
Cameron Crowe
[Rex`s son, Noel Harrison, recalling sitting watching a storm with his father and Rex exclaiming this when a bolt of lightning obliterated a tree in their yard]: Well hit, God!
Rex Harrison
Whenever we have inclement weather moving in, we try to protect our firefighters to make sure safety is number one. We have some additional resources here to get them out of that weather in case we have severe lightning,
Matt Davis
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
We talk about that a lot. We`re going to have a lightning-quick point guard, and we all play defense, so we`re going to be able to lock up on defense and score on offense.
Anne Bauer
The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competiti...
Austin Wilson
People heard it but couldn`t see it. It passed probably 400 yards (meters) from my house. There was so much lightning and rain I didn`t see anything.
Michael White
Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush`s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Alex Redmond
Lightning strikes with regularity in the high country, but when people get hit, it usually happens at the high spots. This was somewhat unusual in that it happened on the edge of a meadow. It`s usually a pretty safe place.
Barry Choy
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
Lee Iacocca
