A Quote by Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works

William Steig

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Mark Twain

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

Elihu Burritt

I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.

Zac Brown

...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

John Muir

Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?

Ray Bradbury

But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

William Irwin Thompson

I can hear her thunder, she's coming after me, thunder thighs.

Ted Nugent

The music was thunder and joy. Lightning bolts of happiness and praise, foot-stomping, dance-shouting, good-feeling singing from the soul.

Etta James

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

George Herbert

It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning.

Ivan Panin

Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You gotta eat lightning and crap thunder!

Shane McMahon

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

Clint Eastwood

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

Jerry Garcia

This is the most rewarding experience ever, taking on the role of Thunder as an actress. I'm just grateful and honored to give my voice to Thunder because she's so bold.

Nafessa Williams

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