Pits Quotes

296 quotes by 271 authors

I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool - 'Oh yeah,… — Sebastian Vettel
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
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… — Thom Yorke
In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old… — Kevin Barry
He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification… — Moshe Safdie
Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it. — Unknown Author
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits… — Toni Morrison
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
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow… — Shel Silverstein
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse… — Unknown Author
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more… — Oscar Wilde
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My… — Haruki Murakami
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps… — Lori Foster
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin… — E L Konigsburg
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to… — Brandon Sanderson
live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the… — Jeanette Winterson
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier.… — Sarah Addison Allen
New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,… — Henry Miller

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