Lightning or Darkening Rod?

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. - English Proverb

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt. - Robert Redford

Electricity is really just organized lightning. - George Carlin

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Henry David Thoreau

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. - Anna Held

Justice is a law of nature rarely found in human affairs. - Unknown

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. - John Muir

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view. - Walter Murch

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" - Robin Williams

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand. - Apache Proverb

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto. - Phyllis Diller

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain

Beauty is the first present nature gives to a woman and the first it takes away. - Fay Weldon

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin

He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning. - Thomas Fuller

It is very rare or almost impossible that an event can be negative from all points of view. - Dalai Lama

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith

Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. - Oscar Wilde

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. - Robert Frost

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. - Alan Ladd

It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. - Cicero

The key to a better life isn't always a change of scenery. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. - Richelle E. Goodrich

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

A smile is the lightning system of the face, the cooling system of the head, and the heating system of the heart. - Unknown

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

A convention is a splendid place to study human nature. Man in a crowd is quite a different creature than man acting alone. - William Jennings Bryan

It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. - Truman Capote