It hit me like a thunderbolt!
If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Everything that happens in my day is a transaction between the external world and my internal world. Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it. Without the time and effort invested in getting ready to create, you can be hit by a thunderbolt and it'll just leave you stunned.
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.
I did [Michael Cimino] first movie, "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," and I remember I was still in my twenties and very nervous, we're shooting up in Montana, and I'm thinking, "What the hell am I doing here? I don't feel anything like this part.
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
