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They had seen their father catch lightning in a bottle.

"Any one of these guys could catch lightning in a bottle."

Maybe, like Quick, he could catch lightning in a bottle the third time?

But if you think the Rockies’ streak is the result of a team that simply has caught lightning in a bottle, you’re wrong again.

We wish him luck on his mission to catch lightning in a bottle.

Then, when they added Luke to the mix it was like catching lightning in a bottle.

Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle where a piece will take off like the Buckner ball.

Sandberg: You have to catch lightning in a bottle twice.

We wanted to catch lightning in a bottle and try to open a time period that's been incredibly difficult."

"Maybe we can catch lightning in a bottle on a return or get a block, something to that affect," Kelly said.

We found out rather quickly it's hard to catch lightning in a bottle once, let alone twice," Wilson said.

"It was that serendipitous sort of thing – catching lightning in a bottle," he said.

"I guess it's like catching lightning in a bottle.

What the manager is really hoping is that the Yankees will catch lightning in a bottle.

"You always like to see if you can, in effect, catch lightning in a bottle."

"We caught lightning in a bottle," he said.

That's when Seder caught lightning in a bottle.

"Either somebody will catch lightning in a bottle," he said, "or Dole will win.

Maybe we can catch lightning in a bottle and learn something about how that archaic notion of peace can be achieved.

Paramount was "betting they can catch lightning in a bottle again," said Leonard Nimoy at the time.

That Mr. Murdock got any award at all, he added, was "a case of catching lightning in a bottle."

Judging by the global media's reaction to the 2013-14 report, which came out last month, the WEF has caught lightning in a bottle.

That is catching lightning in a bottle and getting a Susan Boyle," said Newman.

I think it would have been best for MTV to just pick a new cast and see if they could catch lightning in a bottle again.

"We'd like to catch lightning in a bottle the way Oakland did, a guy who was a so-so starter becoming a dynamite reliever.

"But we'll see if one of the other candidates can capture lightning in a bottle."

This is what Nazarian calls "capturing lightning in a bottle."

It's really struck a nerve and captured lightning in a bottle," he said.

We thought we'd captured lightning in a bottle."

Lippi wants to capture lightning in a bottle.

Only time will tell whether the Disney Channel can capture lightning in a bottle twice in the same decade.

And "good television is about taking chances, trying to capture lightning in a bottle," Mr. Falco said.

Trayser, part of the team that brought the world Effen Vodka, has once again captured lightning in a bottle.

“We had a cover that captured lightning in a bottle,” said Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time.

“You get to the point where you try to capture lightning in a bottle if you try to do things the same each year," he said.

In documentary, there’s a saying that we’re trying to capture lightning in a bottle, and Renoir achieved that but not in a flashy way.

For had Obama not been re-elected, his barrier-breaking election in 2008 could have easily been characterized as a charismatic politician capturing lightning in a bottle.

ANALYSIS: McCain is trying to capture lightning in a bottle once again.

“We were hoping to capture lightning in a bottle, and that it was a win-win for everyone,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 doesn't capture Lightning in a bottle, but it's still a fun and heartfelt role-playing adventure

DES MOINES - Herman Cain has captured lightning in a bottle.

At times, coaches flee the small time not because of the money but because of fear, a sensation that they've captured lightning in a bottle and must capitalize before it escapes.

“The announcement of the speech backdrop created such a hype that it made it virtually impossible for Huntsman to capture lightning in a bottle with his performance,” Bonjean said.

Though capturing lightning in a bottle twice can be difficult, Grey said that Paramount is considering producing a sequel to "Paranormal Activity," for which it would have worldwide rights.

Concert movies once reveled in being visually static: The idea was to capture lightning in a bottle — the experience of being there — with an emphasis on long, loving close-ups.

This was the place the Knicks leaned on Houston and Sprewell and Marcus Camby to capture lightning in a bottle, eliminate the Pacers and advance to the finals.

A year after the USA/FLT fiasco, several of the original members of The Humble Guys left the group in an effort to once again capture lightning in a bottle.

Trying to capture lightning in a bottle twice, Microsoft has recently released “Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure,” but unfortunately, the lightning doesn’t spark as bright the second time around.

Durocher is also credited with popularizing the metaphorical use of the phrase "capture lightning in a bottle" in a baseball context-it had previously been used to literally refer to Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment.

Griffith managed to capture lightning in a bottle again with "Matlock," an hour-long legal drama that ran for nine seasons on NBC and ABC and was very popular with viewers over the age of 50.