Blues Quote by Mahalia Jackson

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

— Mahalia Jackson

I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

— Tamara Taylor

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

— B. B. King

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

— Rem Koolhaas

“Anyone who is destined to descend into a deep pit had better set about it with all the necessary precautions rather than risk falling…

— C.G. Jung

Where should they dig the Very Deep Pit? Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump was, just before he…

— Piglet

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held…

— Aaron Schock

My dad took me and my brother to see Corrosion of Conformity. All I remember was that there was a dude swinging a chain…

— King Tuff

“My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.”

— Cecil Thounaojam

“If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

For most part, the rule of thumb is pretty much you're going to race guys hard the last quarter of the race and for…

— Tony Stewart

I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.

— Ira Glass