Pits Quotes - Page 12

• The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

  Michael Bassey

  Thinking, Not Good Enough, Relax

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• Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Long Ago, Snakes, Insane Person

  Mary Jane Ward (1946). “The snake pit”

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  Sada Thompson

  Believe, Acting, Doe

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• When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Night, Light

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Four Late Plays”, p.357, Wordsworth Editions

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• There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.

  Alexander Pope

  Acting, Monsters, Wit

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Epistle 1 (1737) l. 304

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• Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

  Robert Herrick

  Comfort, Hell

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.251

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• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Effort

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

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• We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Space, Realization, Earth

  "Abide as the Self: The Essential Teachings of Ramana Maharshi". Documentary, January 1, 1998.

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• Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.

  Augustus William Hare

  Self, Coal, May

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.7

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• There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.

  Tim Allen

  Country, Culture, Roles

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• 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

  Blood, Smell, Bulls

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

  Stella McCartney

  Laughter, Fire, Laughing

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• It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Triumph, Favour

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• Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Hands, Endurance

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.152

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• I remember performing on a punk stage with no mic in the middle of a mosh pit. My act was called "How to Be a Domestic Goddess."

  Roseanne Barr

  Remember, Punk, Goddess

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

  Doris Lessing

  Memories, Sleep, Dark

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• What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.

  Richard Wagner

  Song, Other Worlds, Humanity

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• There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Names, Black, World

  Song: No Place Like London

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• The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wise, Moving, May

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.

  Karrine Steffans

  Fall, Live Life, Blessing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Spring, Play

  Jonathan Swift (1801). “The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift”, p.411

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• In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

  Edgar Wallace

  Lovely, Devil, Rays

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• Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Writing, Next, Desperation

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• The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

  Cole Porter

  Falling In Love, Pekingese, World

  Song: Let's Do It

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