A Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
American - Novelist
Born: April 8, 1955

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

Wayne Rogers

Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

Francis Chan

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

J. R. D. Tata

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

George Orwell

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

David Fahrenthold

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

Thomas Golden, Jr.

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

Luis Palau

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

Clint Murchison, Jr.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Lee Marvin

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

Dave Ramsey

Quite frankly, we wouldn't have the problems that we have in America right now if somebody did a better job - if our politicians did a better job standing up for our country.

Eric Trump

Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun."

E. B. White

In my church body, there is a ton of standing, sitting, and kneeling during worship. We're always on the move, kneeling for the confession of sins, bowing toward the processional cross, and always standing at the mention of the Triune God.

Mollie Hemingway

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

Terry Pratchett

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

D. B. Sweeney

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-cowboy values rubbing off on me, but I've grown slightly mellower living in Wyoming. I think if you ride into the West on a high horse, you pretty soon end up in a pile of manure.

Alexandra Fuller

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