J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I've never been struck by lightning as far as I know, so the Higher Power is treating me as well as even those people who love him very much.

Put yourself in the path of lightning.

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

They are spinning and people are dying.

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.

Anything that has to do with air travel and air tragedy is of interest to me.

In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Disaster can take a nation by surprise, slowly, and then all at once.