Pit Quotes

#1. He gave them descriptive names that wouldn't scare people. It wouldn't do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.

Neal Stephenson

#2. The balls were dry as wood, you had to lick and suck at them before they tasted like sour cherries. If you chewed them well, the pit felt very smooth and hot on the tongue. Those night cherries were a happy thing, but they only sharpened our hunger.

Herta Muller

#3. The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures.

Ben Goldacre

#5. When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.

Alice Walker

#6. Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I will paint you a luminous picture if you give me time to gradate my mud and subdue my dust.

John Ruskin

#7. This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.

Ellen Hopkins

#8. Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird ... and just frickin' fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions.
You keep looking at me like that and you'd better buy me dinner afterward.

J.R. Ward

#9. Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#10. The walk-off win provides one of baseball's most thrilling outbursts, launching a couple dozen tense teammates out of the dugout into a frenzied mosh pit of elation.

Dirk Lammers

#11. Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation ... Not all are destined to get there ... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

Paul Klee

#12. All he felt was sorrow, as if he'd been abandoned at the bottom of a deep, dark pit. That's all it was - sorrow. That, and simple physical pain.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Sometimes we do that to ourselves
we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as being at odds with the rest of ourselves.

Julia Serano

#14. The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.

Nate Lowman

#15. I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you .. and I'm about to taste blood.

Torii Hunter

#16. I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it's the death of you.

Beth Moore

#17. We live in a world where people like to pit women against each other. And this is why I love the idea of embracing other females who are doing what I'm doing. It's important for us to support each other.

Madonna Ciccone

#18. There is a black pit in the bottom of my soul that has no limit to its falling.

Claire North

#19. On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry

Bjork

#20. Dreams are the sneaky messengers of your mind. Dreams are the squirming pit of worms you refuse to look at when you're awake. Dreams show you everything you're hiding from.

Leanne Hall

#21. Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you

Stephenie Meyer

#22. 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

#23. I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.

Czeslaw Milosz

#24. The Seeker's host body was named Lacey; a dainty, soft, feminine name. Lacey. As inappropriate as the size, in my opinion. Like naming a pit bull Fluffy.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. We were in a pit. Fitting. This was, after all, my hell. This pit around the lake. The lake that had taken so much. My friendship with Decker. My humanity. Quite nearly my life. And I was so angry with it. I wasn't scared anymore. I was furious.

Megan Miranda

#26. Sometimes, when the monsters come, you need a dark, monstrous thing to pit against them.

Brian Staveley

#27. Then the time he had left was going to be spent making his wife laugh. Because try though he might, he couldn't shake the quiet dread that settled in the pit of his stomach that tonight was the last night of normalcy he had on this earth.

Jessica Scott

#28. Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

Luther Allison

#29. His wife was crying, and he felt nothing; only each time she sobbed in this profound, this silent, this hopeless way, he descended another step into the pit.

Virginia Woolf

#30. I would rather be thrown in a fiery pit of hell than return to Wales,"
Unable to tolerate him for another second, Helen stood and said coolly, "I'm sure that can be arranged, Mr. Vance.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. What were you thinking?"
"Not much, clearly."I hear the exasperation in Kacey's voice.
"I don't know about you, Livie ... Sometimes you're as graceful as a one-legged flamingo in a pit of quicksand.

K.A. Tucker

#32. Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

Jean Grae

#33. I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

J.A. Redmerski

#34. The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#35. Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?
A: Peanut shells on the floor.

Bucky Sinister

#36. The bitch is very nice. She is as sweet as a Georgia peach. But inside every sweet peach is a strong pit. And this means she won't explain the obvious when a man is disrespectful.

Sherry Argov

#37. An evil vampire would not have such a black pit of pain and remorse hidden in his heart. He wouldn't know the meaning of remorse.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#38. His neck is thin, and his Adam's apple prominent, as though he has swallowed a peach pit at some point in his life and it has been lodged there ever since.

Lauren Oliver

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

Sarah Palin

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

Edward Bond

#41. He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

Aleister Crowley

#42. The big turning point came when I played in the pit orchestra for a production of SWEENEY TODD and I spent most of the time watching the play instead of playing the score! And that's when I knew I had it bad for acting.

John Cariani

#43. I decided that I needed to take a new direction in my life, because any change was better than staying in the pit of depression. I actually visualised it as a pit.

Graeme Simsion

#44. I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.

Joshua Henkin

#45. The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#46. she was standing upon the brink of the pit of hell and throwing in snowballs to lower the temperature.

Upton Sinclair

#47. It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a woman; and this is harder to do than anything concerning men, as air is harder to see than a mountain.

Mary Stewart

#48. Being this close to her silence is like my heart breaking all over the place. I can feel it, like it's pulling me down into a bottomless pit, like it's calling for me to just fall and fall and fall.

Patrick Ness

#49. Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit," Gordinus told her cheerfully. "Sometimes rising to one, sometimes swooping to the other. To ignore his capacity for evil is as obtuse as blinding oneself to the heights to which he can soar.

Ariana Franklin

#50. I've learned that when evil crawls out of a snake pit, you have to track it down and squash it. Then you have to assume it had babies and go looking for them too.

Robin York

#51. We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

Bucky Sinister

#52. The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.

Bryant McGill

#53. I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

H.P. Lovecraft

#54. Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

Mahatma Gandhi

#55. Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

George Pope Morris

#56. One word of caution - be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

David P. Ingerson

#57. If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

Larisa Alexandrovna

#58. Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.

Israelmore Ayivor

#59. Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

John H. Vandenberg

#60. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella McCartney

#61. My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

Kenneth Langone

#62. A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.

Chris Fabry

#63. We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.

Daniel Quinn

#64. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning.

Jeanette Winterson

#65. Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#66. Shane Douglas defeated Pit Bull Two in a match so dull, it was soul-destroying.

Findlay Martin

#67. Big worms that move through the sand like it's water." Roger's level arm went up and down in a smooth wave. "Or the big thing in Star Wars. What if we step down there and the sand just turns into a big pit with a mouth at the bottom?" "For the record, it's called a Sarlacc," Xela said.

Peter Clines

#68. None of us had ever encountered, or even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.

Oliver Sacks

#69. Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.

James Comey

#70. It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does!
- Grim Tuesday

Garth Nix

#71. If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

Tisha Venturini

#72. You never hear about a pit bull doing anything good in the media. And they have a stigma to them ... and, in many ways, pit bulls are like young African-American males. Whenever you see us in the news, it's for getting shot and killed or shooting and killing somebody - for being a stereotype.

Ryan Coogler

#73. Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit ... plant a cherry tree.

Coleen Murtagh Paratore

#74. He's safe, I repeated to myself over and over again. But even I knew it wasn't the truth. For now he was safe, but they'd find him. Eventually they'd find him, they always do. I was supposed to protect him. I was supposed to keep him alive. Instead I'd brought him directly into the lion's pit.

Nicole Sobon

#75. When you have nothing left to lose. When there's nothing left to gain. You find yourself at the edge of the world, wishing nothing would have changed," I read and instantly got a twisted feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"All you can do is jump.

Monica Alexander

#76. With a beautiful girl I could have consoled myself that she was out of my league; that I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested - ominously - a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

Donna Tartt

#77. I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

Sue Monk Kidd

#78. My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain in the mosh pit, and the bouncers were dragging him out.

King Tuff

#79. My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Jesmyn Ward

#80. Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#81. A writer must get beyond the thrill of a byline, plunge deeper than the words themselves, and dive head-on into a bottomless pit where all the good stories are swimming around waiting to be rescued from the soul."
Kathleen M. Rodgers ~ 1998

Kathleen M. Rodgers

#82. I guess you have to born in the Pit to find light where there isn't any.

S.M. McEachern

#83. She knew what desire was - though she didn't know she knew. It was like this: she was starving but not for food, it was a kind of painful taste that rose from the pit of her stomach and made her nipples quiver and her arms empty without an embrace.

Clarice Lispector

#84. How! leap into the pit our life to save?
To save our life leap all into the grave.

William Cowper

#85. Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty.
-Percy

Rick Riordan

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

Dave Barry

#87. We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

Evan Wright

#88. It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

Julianna Margulies

#89. Myron was playing Mr. Bureaucrat to the hilt; nothing made a person feel more impotent. There is no darker pit than the blank stare of a bureaucrat.

Harlan Coben

#90. Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock.

Francine Rivers

#91. When I see a church auditorium start to resemble a mosh pit, I know something's wrong.

Curtis A. Chamberlain

#92. The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship.

Stephen K. Hayes

#93. A major consequence of being psychologically asleep is the psychological and spiritual blindness which results from it. This results in action not from conscious awareness and true intelligence but from self-righteousness, which leads individuals and society as a whole into an abysmal pit.

Belsebuub

#94. All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, the Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.

Paul Broun

#95. What do you say when your friends come to visit and the dog starts humping their leg. Well, if it's a pit bull, you say, "You better let him finish."

Robert Schimmel

#96. Most girls got flowers. I got a dirt pit used for demon raising. Nice.

Rachel Hawkins

#97. Are we not all ghosts here, invisible and ethereal, and suspended in the air and the atmosphere, materializing only when a flame with its reddish hue touches our ghostly face, like the flame from the fire-pit amid smoldering log, giving life to the ghosts as blood to human beings?

Antonio Enriquez

#98. In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms

Anton Chekhov

#99. The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Lucretius

#100. I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: "What is the most miraculous event in the world?" And I answer myself: "I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit.

Angela Carter