“It hit me like a thunderbolt!”
Rio Ferdinand (1978) English association football player
Rio on how the drugs ban affected himhttp://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/AFP/2003/12/22/339495?extID=10037&oliID=229
“"The thunderbolt, ay, where the thunderbolt?" Apollo laments.”
Fulmen, io ubi fulmen?'
ait. gemit auctor Apollo.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 889 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
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“They wonder in silence and turn pale for the dubious thunderbolt.”
Mirantur taciti et dubio pro fulmine pallent.
Source: Thebaid, Book X, Line 920
“My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 101
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Os meus sonhos são um refúgio estúpido, como um guarda-chuva contra um raio.
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090
Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 22.
