#heap

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. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#artistic #came #crawled #heap #i

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

Where are you from? New York?" "Weird you picked up on that," she said, "I've been gone from there for so long." Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent. ↗

— Cathie Beck

#friendship #humor #memoir #friendship

My parents always said that knowledge was the best gift they could give me, probably because they were too cheap to buy me Christmas or Birthday presents. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cheap #christmas #funny #knowledge #funny

Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place. ↗

— Cory Basil

#dishes #life #plates #priorities #life

[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as Sense and Sensibility. I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting. Lindsay [Doran] said that the executive she had discussed it with had said 'as a human being I agree with you -- but ...' I laughed until my porridge was cool enough to swallow. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#marketing #movies #novelization #screenplays #unintentional-humor

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #effects #literature #literature-quotes #meaning

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#cheap #china #coffin #driving #every

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#counterfeit #dearly #enough #happiness #how

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#choose #down #exact #full #genius