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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

My office is a mess. I hate filing, so papers and journals and books just pile up. If Jay can keep order in a cell, I figure he could help me organize my office.

Frankie Bailey

We want to give them some sense of normalcy, give them anything that doesn't look like a pile of debris on the side of the road.

Jeanne Brooks

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

It's looking pretty impressive. There's quite a pile of rock and rubble.

Jon Major

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

Peter Morris

What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Andre Malraux

It's outrageous. It's a 50-cent parking violation that costs me 40 bucks a pop. It gets frustrating. It is my fault they are delinquent. I just let them pile up.

Lance Martin

If our elected officials in Texas want to impose harsh penalties for the use of marijuana, that is their decision, but the university does not have to pile on.

Judie Niskala

How many stunts can you pile on before the characters get really stale and boring?

Daniel Davis

Mr. Underwood was very prissy, and he inspected every brick. If it wasn't to his perfection, then it went to the junk pile.

Sarah Reed

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

It really has been a momentum-driven push to $60 over the past week. We've seen funds really pile in hard in an effort to push it over (that level).

Daniel Hynes

He could put together a pile of cement and steel beams, knowing you would look at it at a certain angle and you would think it was twice as big as it really was.

Jim Hill

I was supposed to be collecting the mail for a neighbor next door. One day I forgot, and Dennis started holding it so it didn't pile up.

Pat Ross

We'd just pick up rocks and build a pile of rocks, or trees, and you had to kick it through them.

Victor Espiritu

I had heard talk about improper building before the sheet-pile pull. But not much since.

Wayne Stroupe

They don't pile up too much oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrate or phosphate. Those are kept under some kind of biological control. That's how the past has been. The big issue is, will the future work that way?

Richard Barber

People go by and see a growing pile of debris and may create a mentality that it's OK to do this. If they see piles of debris, residents need to let officials know.

Hugh Graf

The good thing is we won. The biggest problem with the girls is when we've hit bad shots, we pile it on instead of keeping it one bad shot.

Tommy Standefer

I'm almost afraid to total it up. We are spending a pile on gasoline. It's ridiculous.

Jeff Jenkins

What's really good is (a pile of) grass cuttings or a decomposing log, a dead tree. Make sure it's in a sunny place and on the ground.

Carolyn Lidge

They were just framed up with two-by-fours, about three stories high. They're just a pile of rubble, an immense pile of two-by-fours like pick-up sticks.

Graham Painter

My husband is the criminal who did this. He lit a trash pile and a aerosol can popped out onto the grass and caught it on fire.

Kelly Moore

I didn't see it go in. I just saw everyone pile on, so I just joined the crowd.

Tia Hanson

You pile it all together and you have to lose the game despite the fact we still had a chance to win that game. We played horribly and still had a chance.

Charlie Dacey

You walk back there and see a box lying on a pile of junk -- a deceased individual laid out in a burial suit, a blue suit, obviously embalmed in the box he was supposed to be cremated in -- decomposed.

John Bankhead

If somebody came up to me and asked for my professional opinion, I'd say, 'It's a pile of junk,' ... If a buyer was to come to me and say, 'What do you think of this house?' I'd say, 'You have a lot of work to do.'

Mark Hoffman

The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.

Jim Berry

It wasn't a smoking gun. The government had a pretty good pile of evidence.

Kevin Rein

I don?t see where Russia in the foreseeable future can pile up these resources. Russia is saying it has markets. In a way, it?s a form of pressure on Europe.

Valery Nesterov

These are 10- to 12-foot (3- to 4-meter) waves. They can literally pile-drive you into the bottom. The longer it sits nearly stationary, the more problems it's going to cause in the long run.

Scott Petersohn

It's an inverted 'T' with pile supports. It's better. Structurally it proved very well during Hurricane Katrina so we're going back to that wall.

Stuart Waits

[Corpses would pile up.] The mortuary service would not be able to handle the numbers of dead, ... There would be no place to take them.

Greg Poland

Foreigners have a whole pile of dollars. I don't know what we expect them to do with them.

William Reinsch

We're pretty confident that's going to get finished today. The sheet pile will close the canal to the lake.

Walter Baumy

We are going to throw it into a big pile on the ground and everyone has to walk through it and really see the effects of what they are doing.

Bogan Durr

That pile of dirt has been there for years. He cleared off the exotic vegetation that was there and now we see what we couldn't see before.

Daryl Walk

My boat got picked up and dropped on the other side of the wall. You should have seen it right afterward. Honestly, it was in a monstrous pile over there.

Greg Rigamer

Rubble pile asteroids are something we always figured would be out there, and suddenly, 'voila,' there was one in front of us.

Andy Cheng

Those guys made a pile of money off the state of North Dakota. They took half the money up front and half when (the clients) got there.

Paul Freeman

In our backyard. There was a huge pile of raw sewage on top of the ground.

Melinda Rodgers

We have another report, so let's just add it to the pile. Every time there's an unusual case, there's a panel that comes up with the same recommendations.

Jetta Bernier

It appears that somebody was burning trash somewhere, a big brush pile, and the fire got away.

James Wade

It's at the top of the pile.

Marc Violette

Some customers have nearly doubled their energy costs. For those customers, demand response programs are at the top of their pile.

Jeff Siegel

It may cost a little more to build, but it will be worth it to not come back to a pile of rubble after the next big storm.

Tommy Lajaunie

That was a pretty exciting time. All I remember is the puck going in the net, jumping over the boards and jumping on the pile.

Lee Marvin

They have a great defense. They were probably trying to intimidate me some. They were saying stuff on top of the pile, but that kind of stuff has been going on ever since I've been playing football. It wasn't anything personal.

Hunter Cantwell

Everything I own was in that rubble pile.

David Mckenzie

Apparently, there's a big pile of letters at home for me and my mum said I got a thong in the post.

Andrew Murray

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

He didn't want to see it wind up on a scrap pile.

Lanida Frizzo

We heard the ambulances come and the next morning we woke up and there was blood all over our wall and like right next to our door there was a huge pile of blood.

Amanda Dodson

The problem is we have a timber pile bridge in a sandy channel.

Jeff Weiss

It's not enough to hire a general contractor and say here's a big pile of money, now go to it. Homeowners are generally more satisfied if they're on the site.

Eric Goldberg

There's no way . . . it will fly, ... The school district is going to have its highest tax increase ever, and now we pile on. We better learn to cut costs.

Eric Turner

Everyone's sphere became their own. If you were on the pile, you were appalled at what you saw in the morgue. If you were in the morgue, you were appalled at what you saw on the pile.

Emily Craig