Pit

Famous quotes containing the word pit:

    The site of the true bottomless financial pit is the toy store. It’s amazing how much a few pieces of plastic and paper will sell for if the purchasers are parents or grandparent, especially when the manufacturers claim their product improves a child’s intellectual or physical development.
    Lawrence Kutner (20th century)

    the hind
    stepped down

    into the pit of
    the empty
    flowerpot
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)