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Tag Name "Pile" (210)

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That's where I live, a junkyard in a neighborhood of junkyards. We have three tractors from the 1940s and '50s, several old pickup trucks, and a pile of scrap metal.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
Barbara Kingsolver
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You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.
William Gibson
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Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it it grows when you spread it
J. R. D. Tata
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I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.
Britt Ekland
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Charles Lamb
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For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
Steven Erikson
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And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
Gregory David Roberts
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The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.
Douglas Hofstadter
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We ran, plowing through another pile of peppers. [No, I didn't pick a peck of them, Sadie - just shut up.]
Rick Riordan
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For much of my life I floundered under the excuse of nobody's perfect, the liberating and over-used phrase that affords guys like me the freedom to pile up sins in a careless and unchecked way. Ironically, being perfect is precisely what we are called to be!
Tarek Saab
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A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.
Sandy Fussell
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Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but before his fingers reach her, she pushes herself off the ledge, her silver gown a billowing cloud as she falls onto the pile of jewel-toned cushions.
Erin Morgenstern
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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.
James Carroll
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I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.
Mickey Cohen
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Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
P. G. Wodehouse
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There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
John Hillaby
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The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.
Charles Lever
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My lyrics are a big pile of contradictions.
Kurt Cobain
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I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.
Danica Patrick
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Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
Evan Esar
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I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.
Demetri Martin
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
Edward Abbey
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
C. R. Smith
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