A Quote by H. H. Asquith

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

H. H. Asquith

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Brain Greatness Lightning Streak Zigzag

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H. H. Asquith
British - Celebrity
September 12, 1852 - February 15, 1928

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

Steven Wright

I am fascinated, I suppose, by a flawed man with a streak of greatness.

Roger Zelazny

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

Davy Crockett

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

Alexandre Dumas

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Susan Cheever

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

Robert Littell

There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes; the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense; with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points - and is fatal.

Soren Kierkegaard

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Buffalo Bill

The only thing wider than my family's mean streak is my family's cheap streak.

Steve Rushin

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

Camille Flammarion

If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.