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Lightning Bug Quotes

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“If youre brighter than a lightning bug, dont show your ass”
— Stanley Victor Paskavich —

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

— Mark Twain

“Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.”

— Chip Kidd

“The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

— Dan Rather

“And if there's one thing in this world I've ever known for sure, it's that this girl is gonna crush me like a small bug, leave me so fucking broken there'll be body bags beneath my eyes from nights I cried so hard the stars died. But I'm like, go ahead. I'm all yours. I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm, cause I'd rather be left for dead than left to wonder what thunder sounds like.”

— Andrea Gibson

“Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.”

— Adam Rex

“Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.”

— Robert Littell

“A firefly landed on Honor's sleeve and began walking up her shoulder, its tail still blinking. As she craned her neck to look down at it, Jack chuckled. "Don't be scared. It's just a lightning bug." He placed his finger in its path. Honor tried not to think about the pressure of his touch. When the firefly crawled onto his finger, he lifted it up and let it fly off, signaling its escape route with sparks of light.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“If you're brighter than a lightning bug, don't show your ass”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind;
He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.”

— Eugene Fitch Ware