Pitch Quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. (Robert A. Heinlein)
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The art of living easily as to money, is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. View quote
Henry Taylor
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. View quote
Joseph Addison
Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. View quote
David Hume
Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser. View quote
Sandy Koufax
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. View quote
Satchel Paige
My only day off is the day I pitch. View quote
Roger Clemens
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. View quote
Edmund Burke
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't. (Diego Maradona)
Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple. View quote
Zinedine Zidane
I love playing football, being out on the pitch with a ball, and I will be a little sad when that ends. View quote
Dennis Bergkamp
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. View quote
Paul Muldoon
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society. View quote
George Washington
All my children inherited perfect pitch. View quote
Chevy Chase
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting. (Vitruvius)
I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season. View quote
Rio Ferdinand
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them. View quote
Josh Billings