Trough Quotes
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Examining sand grains trough the microscope is a wonderful way to find out about the biology, and ecology of the local environment.
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More Trough Quotes
That man must be very much absorbed in reflection, or stupid, or sulky, or unhappy, or a mere hog at his trough, who is not moved to say something when he dines.
— 1851Table-Talk,'Table- Talk'.
An account?of the decadence occupying the trough between the two world wars introduces us to a moronic inferno of insipidityand decay.
— 1950 Rude Assignment, ch.31.
Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.
George Mann MacBeth— 1977 'An Ode to English Food'.
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.
asger jorn— Statement (c. 1944), on automatic drawning, quoted in Asger Jorn (2002) by Arken Museum of Modern Art, p. 162
It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.
h. l. mencken— On elected politicians
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.
alan watts— (page 96) (The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966))
