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