Pitts Quotes & Sayings

Nincompoops. (Quincy, — Raven Pitts

We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.. — Leonard Pitts

Follow your heart and chase your dreams until you catch them. Negative people who say you cant do something are only speaking for themselves — Jake Pitts

It occurred to Mo that he didn't have any pictures of himself as a boy. Every photo he owned, every memento of his life, was from after. It was as if he had been born the day he left. He had gone out from here and invented himself. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness till you just about can't stand it anymore. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

I loved 'The Pitts.' I just loved it. — Dylan Baker

It was skin, she decided. Only skin. And it had no power to add or subtract or otherwise alter her fundamental understanding of her own self. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

You could get lost in and never care about finding your way back. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

He was numb from aching. And from fear. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Only by vigilance toward everyone's rights do we protect anyone's rights. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United States or our Commander-in-Chief acts. — Joe Pitts

Honey, I work for money not love. — Denele Pitts Campbell

Don't nobody like a man they can't figure. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Numb. He felt everything. He couldn't feel anything. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

I find that there are two kinds of books; the ones that make you want to read more and those that make you want to write more. — Harmann Pitts

The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman. — Leonard Pitts

When the inky blackness above shades to a deep blue and the stars lose their hard edge and begin to seem unreal, she rises, wrapping the thin sheet about herself, and steps outside into the morning chill. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Whoever said the truth sets you free never told the truth. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

I genuinely expect the best from people. And because I know there are people who will not live up to that expectation, I find it hard to interact with people whose intentions I can't decipher, which is a lot of people - not all of whom are ill-intentioned. This makes it hard for me to be social. It makes it hard to be a lot of things, really. — Russ Pitts

I guess anybody who plays can say that they play guitar, but if you want to be a guitarist, you've got to practice all the time and you've got to get good at it. It's more than just having one and playing it. — Jake Pitts

South Carolina State Rep. Mike Pitts wants to ban money. — Charles Foster Johnson

Failure is the price of excellence. — Leonard Pitts

You think you've reached the bottom. Then you find out the bottom has a basement. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Sometimes, yesterday says goodbye to you. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years. — Leonard Pitts

Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all. — Leonard Pitts

If you can build it, you can unbuild it — Jake Pitts

I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me. — Marie Helvin

I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge. — Jake Pitts

For the first time in his life, the very first time in his life, he hated her.

Or he tried to, at least. Tried mightily. But it is a hell of a thing to hate your own mother, to hate where you came from, to hate what succored you and nourished you when you could not do it for yourself. A hell of a thing to hate that, even when it hates you, even when it calls you a nothing, calls you garbage and tells you to throw yourself away. Because even then, she is still your mother. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

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There were few things more paralyzing than fear and worry, and she could not understand why other people - even Bonnie - withstood them so readily. The world was what it was, the future would be what it would be, and there was not much you could do to change either. So you did what you knew was right, you accepted the consequences, and you did not look back. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Not everyone has something to say. This will not stop them from saying it. — Leonard Pitts

Love is a powerful tie, son. At the end, it's the thing that pulls us back together when everything else has pulled us apart. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

You could never tell if he was with you or not, so Cooley liked to talk to him just in case. Just to remind them both that this was still a human being. He never wanted to catch himself treating Jack like a thing, a chore to be done. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known. — Jake Pitts

The Constitution is very clear on the - on the declaration of war or reacting to international crimes - crimes against nations. It is the role of Congress to debate and authorize this before the President acts precipitously. — Joe Pitts

But it is these deaths - the killings in Ferguson and Beavercreek and beyond - that commemorate the unfinished, perhaps unending, struggle to assert black humanity in a country built on its denial. — Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

They drove through the intersection and turned left on a street Mo had once known like his favorite song. It was strange to him now and he wondered if that was because of the disease or just the natural effect of change itself, the tendency of things to move around on you, to shift when you weren't looking. So that you could get back and be a stranger in your own places. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Listen, I traipse no I run no I sprint--a fat, impotent ghoul sprung straight from the cellar of my childhood home--past the pregnant girl with five skeletal children and the nun and the synagogue with its windows stoned through and I'm headed directly for my daughter, Sylvia, at her school where she's stationed with classmates of wannabe punks and black boys with their heads shaved and every one of them, apes, gushing out their hormones as I sprint to the edge of the Earth where Sylvia studies the canon of our national literature that I'm desperately trying to forget. — Leland Pitts-Gonzalez

To lose your memory is not just to lose everything you have. It's to lose everything you are. It's to lose your very self. What are you without the things you remember. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Do that which serves your cause, not that which serves your rage. — Leonard Pitts

Sometimes, you simply must follow your heart," she said. "No reasonable man can blame you for that." A smile. "No reasonable woman can, either. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what note to play, what word to use - in that artist's attempt to share what is in his or her soul. The audience is free to accept or reject those choices; it is emphatically not free to substitute its own. — Leonard Pitts

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback) — Ken Bruen

GOD CAN TURN A MESS INTO A MASTERPIECE! — Trinisa M. Pitts

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation. — Tavis Smiley

It don't matter none where you start in life. What matters is where you finish. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Everything that lived, died. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Where there are no rights, there are no duties. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

That's funny, isn't it, how you can know him one way and we can know him some way completely different. Funny how a person can contradict their own self. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan. — Leonard Pitts Jr.