Thunderbolt

"Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as the night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt." ~ Sun Tzu 500 B.C.

"I had everything worked out, down to the last detail. But when I went to execute the plan, I tripped and fell down. Skinned my knee pretty bad. That's gonna leave a scar..." ~ Jovian Thunderbolt


Hat tip to Home on the Range for having the first quote. Try to be more like the first, less like the second

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"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm" ~ Charles Caleb Colton (sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)

"Does it look like rain? Better get the slicker." ~ J T Bolt

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"The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction." ~ Sean O'Casey (Irish Playwright 1880-1964)

"Cool submarine, Captain! What does this button do? -click- " ~ J T Bolt