Piles Quotes
103 Piles quotes by 99 unique authors
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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…
— Ellen Glasgow
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I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away.
— Brian Greene
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My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through…
— Lily Collins
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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…
— Les Dawson
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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
— John Kasich
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
— Stephen King
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some…
— James Patterson
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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made…
— Robin Hobb
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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…
— Thomas S. Monson
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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…
— Cornelia Funke
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By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old…
— Mitch Albom
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of…
— Nora Roberts
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Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being…
— Anne Lamott
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Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of…
— Holly Black
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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…
— Donald Miller
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This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know…
— Paulo Coelho
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The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get…
— Jean M. Auel
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Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung…
— Cassandra Clare
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Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.
— Suzanne Collins
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I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel…
— Maureen Johnson
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I used to sleep with my books in piles all over my bed and sometimes they were the only thing keeping me warm and always…
— Sherman Alexie
Who Wrote These Piles Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 103 Piles Quotes, led by these top contributors: