Pile Quotes

The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can't imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

I think Robbie Williams is an utter and complete prat. His last record was a pile of rubbish.

The world is a pile of grunge.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

When people pile seven things onto one burger, it drives me nuts!

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.