Top 30 Heap Quotes

We can decide to kneel to the mob and kneel to the state, cede all of our power over to the federal government, and then, you know, be confined to the ash heap of history. Or we can decide to come together and realize that we all want the same thing, which is a better America.

Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

You know, many of you kids can’t relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We’re looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn’t happen.

‘Daydream’ brought us to the top of the heap of the indie-college market and recognition by all of our peers; ‘Daydream’ kind of capped off everything we set out to do when we started as a band, in terms of, like, wow, wouldn’t it be great to make a record that a lot of people liked and listened to?

I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that’s what I did. It was a heap – this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I’d love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

Do not consider that to be wealth which is hoarded away, for how is it better than sand gathered from the nearest heap? Nor that which comes in from men who groan at their taxes: for the gold that is wrung from tears is of base alloy and black.

I’m not usually one to heap praise on Jeremy Corbyn but I love that he doesn’t drag his wife on stage for awkward snogs after his annual speech at the party conference.

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I’ll never reach the same artistic level again.

My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life – the idea of a woman’s role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That’s what keeps me alive, and if I couldn’t keep creating that, I’d fall into a bit of heap.

If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.

I don’t buy into you’re on the slag heap when you’re 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it’s not only because I served, okay. It’s because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that’s a, that’s a, that’s a heap, you know.

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it’s all for.

I don’t worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn’t bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work – which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn’t.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it’s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

I’m a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I’m in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

As soon as you reach a certain age, you’re thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan’s Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.

Imogen Heap – she was in the baggage claim at the airport and was like, ‘You’re from Pentatonix, right?’ She’s like, I love you guys! I’m like, that’s awesome.

I’d see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn’t understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I’m a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.