Pile Quotes (page 5)

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• stating
• piled
• stated

[...]the stately and slow-moving Turk, With freight of slippers piled beneath his arm. William Wordsworth

• party
• bed
• coats

He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats. George Saunders

• night
• she
• saying

Oh" she says "the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a caf. The last one left". Muriel Spark

• rainbow
• build
• piles

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings. Suzanne Collins

• look
• affection
• manly

Every man looks upon his wood pile with a sort of affection. Henry David Thoreau

• son
• little
• lies

When my sons told me about what they'd found, I went to the priests of Belar and had them examine the auguries. This is the year to go. The ice up there won't be as thick again for years and years. Then they cast my own auguries, and from what they say, this could be the most fortunate year in my whole life."Do you actually believe that superstitious nonsense?" I demanded. "Are you so gullible that you think that somebody can foretell the future by fondling a pile of sheep guts?"He looked a... David Eddings

• evening
• leaving
• good

Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie underthem, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves. Frank O'Hara

• time
• end
• question

He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilisation only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. H. G. Wells

• failure
• humanity
• victory

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot. Joyce Carol Oates

• book
• music
• stupid

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself! Jhonen Vasquez

• thinking
• home
• die

Y Won’t U B With Me, Kate? Oh, Kate, Y won’t U B with me? Kate, Don’t U know what U mean to me? I look at the dirty dishes piling up in the sink and all I can think is Kate U kept the place so clean Kate, I treated U like a queen Oh, Kate, U mean the world to me Kate, Come home to me Oh, Kate, Y can’t it B Like it used to B Because this world ain’t meant for lovers No, this world ain’t meant for U and me Because the bureaucrats in Washington, they’ll set off the bombs, so what’s the... Meg Cabot

• dog
• hot
• coffee

In that latitude the temperature flirted with a hundred degrees for a few of the dog days, but to a child it can hardly ever be too hot. I liked the sun licking the backs of my legs, and the sweat between my shoulder blades, and the violet evenings, with ice cream and fireflies, wherein the long day slowly cooled. I liked the ants piling up dirt like coffee grounds between the bricks of our front walk, and the milkweed spittle in the vacant lot next door. I liked the freedom of shorts,... John Updike

• beautiful
• beauty
• world

In many ways the world is nothing but a pile of shit. But it can also be very beautiful. Stephen King

• rain
• kiss
• words

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain Zora Neale Hurston

• soul
• experience
• touring

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. Thomas Moore