Quote by Anthony Powell Download Open image ““The mere phrase ‘artificial manure’ told the whole story.”” — Anthony Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“(Sir Albert)Howard put it this way:"Artificial manures (synthetic fertilizers)lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“We say that the plow made civilization but for that matter, so did manure.” — Benjamin Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.” — Kaaron Warren Copy Share Image
“Even manure can accomplish great things when placed into the right environment.” — Raymond C. Nolan Copy Share Image
Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women. — Albert Howard Copy Share Image
“me in my office the first morning I met her didn’t include any of this. Especially, it didn’t include the manure pile.” “What? A… — George Wier Copy Share Image
“You have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can do about that. Now, you can drown in the stink, or turn it into… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Manure grew the fodder for the cow that made that ice cream and fertilized the beets that gave us the sugar, my girl," Juniper… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
“The same is true of the misfortune, failures, and disappointments of life. If we understand the importance of manure, we understand that nothing is… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I have absolutely no histrionic talent, none at all, a constitutional handicap in almost all undertakings of life;but then, after all, plenty of actors… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“It is rather an occasion, darling,’ said Moreland, vexed at these objections. ‘After all, I am noted among composers for the smallness of my… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
