Nothing, not even an avocado pit, keeps guacamole green for too long once it’s made.
I feel the car, but I think with me and my background of dirt racing and stuff and not having pit stops, you just kind of ‘All right, this is how my car is handling, I’ve got to figure out how to drive it’ and then you get a feel of how you want it to feel.
I grew up in Mill Hill. All potteries, mining. Then once Maggie Thatcher closed the pits down, it became a bit depressed.
When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
I would say it’s not as hard as writing, because when you’re a writer, you walk right into the pit all by yourself, but when you’re a director, there are at least 80 people who scream, ‘Don’t do that!’ when you make a mistake.
Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down.
A punk concert isn’t fun without a pit.
For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me.
And if you are going to truly stand with workers, it also means embracing solidarity, not attempting through lame talking points to pit union workers against non-union workers.
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 makes them think.
My dad would take me downtown, and I’d stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He was a musician, a band leader, a wonderful clarinetist and saxophone player.
People in the media grew up in the Northeast and can’t comprehend the notion that there are people who like to go out to the clay pits and shoot and, afterward, go eat fried chicken.
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
I’ve never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.
It was a really strange way that I came into music. Once I gave voice to it, the pit of emotions that I guess I knew was inside of me for a long time, the stream never really stopped.
I’ve never had a person come to me and say, ‘I want to take down this person.’ They come and say, ‘I need help. This thing is killing me. It’s weighing me down. It’s sitting in the pit of my stomach.’
I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn’t promote it, and I wouldn’t tour. Actually, it wasn’t a very good album anyway – it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
When I go to business meetings, I’m still told way too often by some receptionist, ‘The mail room is downstairs,’ to believe that racial perceptions don’t still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.
Music does help me a lot with my character, with the fact that I have to have a really good theme song, something that I can get into while I’m walking down the ramp. It puts me into that mindset that I’m going into a mosh pit.
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God’s.
The person you see in the ring is me in a mosh pit, pretty much. I am that character, I don’t even like calling it a character. It’s just me.
I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
Brave doesn’t spread hate or bully the vulnerable. Brave doesn’t put greed and self-interest over millions of lives. Brave doesn’t cower behind lies and walls. Brave doesn’t pit people against one another. That’s what fear does.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
For anyone who’s not familiar with ‘Piper’s Pit,’ they need to know one thing – there’s absolutely no rules.
We’re all constantly keeping score. You can’t help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.
I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.
The Sons of the Harpy are basically the people who represent the old regime. They don’t want Daenerys in there governing them. Daenerys has this attitude about the fighting pits being reopened, which is part of their tradition. There’s quite a considerable resentment to the fact that she doesn’t want this to happen.
‘Grand Royal’ started because we were on the Lollapalooza tour, and we wanted to send this message to people that the mosh pit is corny. Stop doing that. MTV has ruined it, and it’s dangerous, and girls are getting hurt.
I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he’s driving, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road.
Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.
If you’ve never feared the police – if you don’t get a dull ache in the pit of your stomach when you see red and blue flashing lights, even when you know you’re not doing anything wrong – consider yourself lucky.
It’s no secret that there are people who would like to narrow our discussions on climate change to a debate about pipelines alone in an attempt to divide Canadians – to pit workers against environmentalists.
I’m not a horror fan. I’m an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.
You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn what kind of person likes your dog – and what kind of person fears him.
I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I’d seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
We lived in Dudley, near Cramlington, surrounded by five pits: my father would wash outside in a tin bath. He was the hardest man in the village.
My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.
My father’s Alfred Newman – born in 1900, child prodigy at the piano, ended up in pit orchestras in the teens. I think he’s one of the youngest conductors to conduct Broadway and worked with George Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Cole Porter – went out with Irvin Berlin in 1930 to Hollywood and never left.
Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
I don’t need a huge pit bull to tell me I’m tough.
I haven’t fought for a while and didn’t want a warm-up fight. I wanted to jump right back in the pit and I got what I asked for. I got Anthony Pettis.
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