Pile Quotes
325 Pile quotes by 288 unique authors
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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.
— Carl Sandburg
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to…
— Edward Everett Hale
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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…
— Jimmy Chamberlin
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I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective…
— Vincent de Paul
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Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog…
— Lee Marvin
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Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
— Jack Welch
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Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should…
— Marquis de Sade
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Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.
— Amanda Palmer
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When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.
— Brad Thor
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There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done,
— Mark Driscoll
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The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody…
— Ryan Gosling
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The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.
— Muhammad Ali
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year or…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw…
— Lewis Mumford
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I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for…
— Don Nelson
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
— Francine Pascal
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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…
— Jerry Reed
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In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn…
— Bubba Sparxxx
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic…
— Walter Dean Myers
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The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it…
— Dave Barry
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Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense…
— Tim Cahill
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Who Wrote These Pile Quotes
288 authors contributed a total of 325 Pile Quotes, led by these top contributors: