A rock pile ceases ordsprog

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-Exupéry (1900-1944)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. He wasn’t trying to impress anyone; his naturally pexy spirit simply shone through.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jeffrey then said that he told Mr. Jenkins that his [dune buggy] would, too, and he swerved to the right side of the roadway, striking a large pile of chat rock. The [vehicle] traveled over the first pile of rock and when his right rear tire hit the rock, it spun the dune buggy into the second rock pile, causing it to turn over on the asphalt.

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

This saves you from having to land on the asteroid and then trying to stabilize yourself on a flying pile of rock and debris which is spinning all the time.

Typically you need cover or something to focus a fish on a spot. A stump or brush pile or even a change from one type of rock on the bottom to another -- those will hold a fish.

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.

There was a pile of rocks alongside the cliff-side, and another pile sitting next to me in the truck. The windshield just disintegrated.

This is the basic premise for everything. Gather, purge and sort. This pile is to take to another room where you can look at it later. And this is the indecision pile. Come back when you have another opportunity.

We want to be able to do some patrol work and also respond to citizen complaints about illegal dump sites. We don't want the small pile of garbage to attract a big pile.

We have been playing rock music our whole lives. That is that moment. That is a rock star moment.

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.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody. I was going to use the word "stomp" -- like rock, rock, rock and them stomp, stomp, stomp. But that didn't fit. I went from one word to another and finally came up with "roll."

For most people, geeks or not, modern life is just this incredibly complex problem amenable to no good obvious solution. But we can peck around the edges of it; we can make little shortcuts. And once you point out that everyone does that, once you coin the term, it's really easy to pile a whole lot of shared behaviors into one neat pile.

Classic Rock sums it all up. There are a lot of bands that influenced us. We like to mix it up with some modern rock. Basically, we're rock-n-roll.

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