Pile Quotes
325 quotes by 300 authors
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
— J. J. Abrams
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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…
— Kate Beckinsale
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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…
— Winston Churchill
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
— H. L. Mencken
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Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just…
— William Anders
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other men call trifles.…
— Loren Eiseley
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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them…
— Carl Sandburg
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If we threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
— Regina Brett
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I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the…
— Roger Ebert
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In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I…
— George Washington Carver
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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…
— Mitch McConnell
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Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
— Alain de Botton
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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.
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the…
— Philip Caputo
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It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Who Wrote These Pile Quotes
300 authors contributed a total of 325 Pile Quotes, led by these top contributors: