Top 101 Pit Quotes

You’re never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he’s done in this state, trying to pit the city of Chicago against the rest of Illinois – I’ll never agree with anything Bruce Rauner says.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption – it’s not a bottomless pit.

What’s the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it’s always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that’s what it takes – and then you can write villainous characters.

There’s such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You’ve got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren’t afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It’s amazing.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts.

The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

But I have to say I’m incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there’s not many races where I’ve honestly left the track feeling that we’ve executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

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

The Turks are fantastic barbecuers. They have these long barbecue pits called Mangals. The food smells wonderful and has a smoky, charcoaly taste.

So many bands have the same performance-based videos, and it’s so lame. I know bands whose labels rent a crowd, so they have these fake audiences that jump up and down trying to make it look like a pit or something.

Biarritz is world-famous for its surfing. The waves roll high and wild and surfers cross the planet to pit their skills against the swells and curls of these waters.

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

I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.

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.

I grew up in a little pit village on the outskirts of Durham.

It’s really hard to have your voice heard in a man’s world. People are always comparing women and bringing them down – that, I’m completely against. We have an obligation as women to not pit ourselves against each other, because men are going to do it for us.

You don’t come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you’re gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You’ve got to work on your own car and fix it. It’s a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.

Not many know that digging the akhada pit with spade is the best warm-up exercise.

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

I’m learning what I gotta do to get people hyped up. It doesn’t matter even if they’re not dancing, as long as they’re bobbing their head and as long as it looks like a mosh pit down there.

I think if I hadn’t been born in a pit village I’d have been part of a dramatic society.

There’s a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I’m playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there’s crowd-surfing. Most of the time there’s a mosh pit.

If a man’s reputation can be destroyed in an afternoon by a secret kangaroo court, then we, too, can one day be propelled into a pit of everlasting shame by the same process.

Look, I’m still a goateed guy with a bunch of tattoos, but I’ve got a poodle and not a pit bull. I don’t kick boxes and I don’t scream at other people.

My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I’d do the same for her.

TV shows always pit girls against each other; there’s always a nemesis.

A lack of grace involves much more than critiquing an opponent. It looks a lot more like the ad hominem attacks the president launches nearly daily against all who aren’t actively worshiping him. It looks like Trump’s relentless attempts to pit Americans against one another.

Despite living in an increasingly digital world, there are a few things I still like to keep as physical reminders. So every time I see an exhibition, I make a pit stop at the museum gift shop to buy a postcard of something that inspired me.

Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing ‘trading pits’ for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.

Americans voted for Trump in 2016 precisely because he is a pit bull, a barbarian, a gun-slinger they hired to fight the dirty left, drain the swamp, bring back their jobs from China and stand up for the flag, family and common sense.

Mr. Putin’s primary goal in the 2016 elections was to delegitimize our institutions and pit Americans against each other.

This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.

I’d taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never advanced to where I was on a team or anything like that.

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.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

Music is entertainment, and we need that in order not to fall into the pit of despair.

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.

Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he’s going to make a skateboard ramp. It’s just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We’re not even going to finish it.

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 sure the last run of the day. You’re still going to give and take until that last pit stop.

I’ve come to see the mosh pit as an apt description of American society – and of my childhood home. I was number nine of ten creative, mostly loud kids competing for airspace.

It’s funny ’cause the Rhea Ripley that everyone sees, I’ve looked into that personality so many times before, just at home, in concerts, in mosh pits.

I never, ever romanticise life in the pit. It was a hard, dirty, noisy, tiring, dangerous job in a confined space, a very dark world with no toilets or running water to drink or wash with.

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

Even in the ARCA race we have scheduled pit stops. You’re already rolling with everyone; you can’t lose any spots. But in the trucks, you can lose or gain a ton.

Believe me, there’s nothing worse than the feeling in the pit of your stomach when you’re sat in the back of a taxi, listening to someone else doing your show as you dash to the studio.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious… This administration simply doesn’t get it.