Pile Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

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.

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.

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

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

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

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.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.

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

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

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.

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

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.

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.