Alan Greenspan

I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.

American Economist

Amber Rudd

For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap, those who have been abused by the very people who should have looked after them, is, as home secretary, my job, but I also see it is as my moral duty.

British Politician

Joseph Addison

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.

English Writer

Rebecca Solnit

The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap.

American Writer

Jill Scott

I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

American Musician

Octavia Spencer

Being a part of a large family is just like a little society: those who fight to the top of the heap. We relied on each other and still do. They never discouraged me or told me to get a proper job.

American Actress

Mark Schlereth

We've seen safeties, especially middle of the field safeties, we've seen those guys get paid. Like every one of those guys has gone out on the market and gotten a heap of money.

Norman MacCaig

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

Scottish Poet

Mary Ellen Chase

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.

American Educator

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

American Philosopher

Imagine a disorganized pile to grasp 'heap' as a physical collection of items.

Visual Imagery

Use 'heap' to emphasize that there's a large quantity of something.

Size Implication

'Heap' suggests a generous amount, often more than expected.

Emphasize Abundance

'Heaps' in this sense is informal and common in conversational speech.

Colloquial Usage

'Heap' can imply a car is unreliable and possibly unattractive when referring to vehicles.

Negative Connotation

Sometimes 'heap' is used humorously or affectionately for old but cherished cars.

Affectionate Teasing

In computing, 'heap' is a specific structure, not random or disorganized.

Computing Context

Remember, the computing 'heap' is a technical term, unfamiliar outside tech circles.

Technical Term

 I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction. And people would say, "Aren't you afraid you're never going to have any success? Aren't you afraid the humiliation of rejection will kill you? Aren't you afraid that you're going to work your whole life at this craft and nothing's ever going to come of it and you're going to die on a scrap heap of broken dreams

Your elusive creative...

 but when birds came and ate those heaps of dead bugs, the DDT accumulated in their bodies. It worked its way up the food chain and was absorbed by apex predator birds in such high concentrations that it thinned their eggs so that they couldn't support the nesting bird's weight.

The hidden worlds within...

 Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children while their own stomachs rumbled. With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world. To His shock and awe,

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 don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic. So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from,

A radical plan to end...

 cumulus, heap or pile, and stratus, layer or sheet. But that wasn't the clever part. Clouds are constantly changing, merging, rising, falling, and spreading throughout the atmosphere, rarely maintaining the same shapes for more than a few minutes.

How did clouds get their...

 that rare mammal that doesn't have any that kind of limits our culinary choices doesn't well not if you're angling if you're a Pangolin there's nothing like a big heaping mound of live bugs termites the Pangolin uses its powerful claws to

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 and the resulting collapsed heap is now home to local rodents and lizards. But in this post-human world, “local” has a new meaning. Our cities are full of imported plants, which now run wild across their adopted homes.

What would happen if...

 home not much to see on the surface just a scattering of holes and heaps of soil but down below they dig a labyrinth an underground bunker that's been key to their success three stories deep extending over 60

Underground Labyrinth Of...

 Every one universe produced by random fluctuations has equivalent odds to heaps upon heaps of insta-brains. So by this reasoning, it seems extremely more likely

The Boltzmann brain...

 the dogs to dice all from cultural projectiles also some of those heaps are fatal some of them we dock dive and do