(122 quotes found)
“When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
Winston Churchill
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“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 be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”
Marquis De Sade
“If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.”
Chuck Tanner
“It is a little hill, or rather three or four hills that seem piled together... and just where their shade is the darkest, they suddenly recede, and, from a stoney excavation, bursts forth a strong and rapid stream of pure and brilliant water, which pours directly down the precipice, and is lost in the trees that crowd over it.”
Charlotte Smith
“Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“We didn't pitch very well. We weren't consistently throwing strikes, and things piled up.”
Billy Traber
“The criminal charges are piling up. They are circling tighter around Delay.”
Craig McDonald
