A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
Patrick MacGill

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Randall Jarrell

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Christy Mathewson

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
Klaus Kinski

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Black Kettle

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
Barbara Castle

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
Daniel Nathans

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.
John Perkins

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.
Emma Thompson

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.
Deidre Hall

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
Walter Annenberg

During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
Neil Schon

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph De Maistre

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.
William Odom

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
Pierre Schaeffer

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
Francis Parkman

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
Lee Trevino

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
Stanley Baldwin

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
Charles Rangel