Pit Quotes

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

Person, Greed, Effort

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West

Black, Big, Space

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
Sarah Palin

Love, Mom, Between

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
Chuck Palahniuk

Hope, Dark, Start

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Fun, Punk, Concert

Hate is a draining bottomless pit from whence nothing good or of any value can come. Try to eat a balanced diet. Guys only want one thing.
Christopher Meloni

Good, Diet, Hate

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth, Another, Violence

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
Dave Barry

Car, Hate, Through

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
Marco Rubio

History, Today, Leader

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot

Men, Place, Theatre

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.
Norman Schwarzkopf

United, Taken, Nations

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
Mahalia Jackson

Help, Deep, Singing

You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
Pat Robertson

Feeling, She, Somebody

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
Mahalia Jackson

Help, Deep, Anybody

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
Bryan Adams

Time, Rude, Trouble

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.
Jesse Jackson

Fight, Giving, Goal

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
Barbara Corcoran

Life, Best, Business

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
Edward Bond

Lost, Between, Difference

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
Patrick Swayze

Love, Find, Talent

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
Thom Yorke

Power, Around, Makes

The end of coal in Appalachia doesn't mean that America is running out of coal (there's plenty left in Wyoming). But it should end the fantasy that coal can be an engine of job creation - the big open pit mines in Wyoming employ a tiny fraction of the number of people in an underground mine in Appalachia.
Jeff Goodell

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Live, State, Mediocrity

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
Judy Davis

Women, God, Men

You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
Nadia Giosia

Best, Food, Far

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is a friend of mine, and the two of us were just rolling our eyes, it's like, of course, you finally have two great female leads and you're going to put us on against each other.
Julianna Margulies

Women, Great, Friend

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
Luther Allison

Guy, Skinny, Steel

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?
Winona Ryder

Good, Hate, Past

All dogs can become aggressive, but the difference between an aggressive Chihuahua and an aggressive pit bull is that the pit bull can do more damage. That's why it's important to make sure you are a hundred percent ready for the responsibility if you own a 'power' breed, like a pit bull, German shepherd, or Rottweiler.
Cesar Millan

Power, Important, Why

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.
Geri Halliwell

Time, Long, Deep

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
Earl Campbell

Started, House, Cooking

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