Piled Quotes

92 quotes by 84 authors

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — Jack Kerouac
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the… — Abraham Lincoln
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and… — Herman Melville
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found… — Khaled Hosseini
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little… — Tom Perrotta
Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my fatherâ€™s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of… — Haruki Murakami
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright… — Lewis Carroll
As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths… — Jennifer Weiner
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities… — Allen Ginsberg
For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those… — Thomas Mann
This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again… — Banana Yoshimoto
Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a… — Christopher Moore
I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a… — Dorothy Parker
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion… — David Eddings
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm,… — Maggie Stiefvater

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