Top 163 Piles Quotes & Sayings

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

I know it's really square but I'm one of those people who piles on the factor 50 as soon as I'm outside.

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

On the subject of spinach: divide into little piles. Rearrange again into new piles. After five of six maneuvers, sit back and say you are full.

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

The funny thing about my films is that you can make little piles of them. You could make little piles of the movie that were family movies, you could make a little art movie pile, you could make a little action movie pile.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.

Atlanta is not like New York, where everybody piles into one place.

When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.

Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

Rather than dwelling on the past, we should make the most of today, of the here and now, doing all we can to provide pleasant memories for the future…If you are still in the process of raising children be aware that the tiny fingerprints that show up on almost every newly cleaned surface, the toys scattered about the house, the piles and piles of laundry to be tackled, will disappear all too soon, and that you will, to your surprise, miss them, profoundly.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

I just had an operation for piles - all my troubles are behind me.

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.

Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

The piles of makeup and the insistence on frills and ribbons and bows was not at all attuned to my feminist views.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

I stopped eating out so much. That just piles weight on you. I stay active now. Just taking a walk for 30-45 minutes can do wonders.

That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.

She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

Derek Randall bats like an octopus with piles

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building erected on piles. The piles are driven down from above into the swamp, but not down to any natural or 'given' base; and if we stop driving the piles deeper, it is not because we have reached firm ground. We simply stop when we are satisfied that the piles are firm enough to carry the structure, at least for the time being.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.