A Quote by Mary Beard
I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.
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A poet trains himself to stand out in a storm and be struck by lightning. If he is lucky enough to be struck six times, he becomes immortal. Randall Jarrell said it and he's right.
Mom cooked a lot of turkey when I was growing up. Turkey meatloaf, turkey burgers, ground turkey shepherd's pie - my childhood was the Bubba Gump of turkey. You'd think I would be sick of it, but when I find gems like Gwyneth Paltrow's turkey meatball recipe, it's as though the fowl is no longer foul to me.
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom! He struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!
That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'
You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
I'm sure part of the fascination with the film is voyeuristic - that we go to see somebody who's been struck by lightning.
It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
