(9 quotes found)
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
Joan Didion
“I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.”
William S. Burroughs
“Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void.”
Folashade' Ayanwale
“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
Bible
“And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.”
“And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.”
“He should have been dragged through streets ... and thrown into a bottomless pit.”
Ferdone Qerkezi
“Consumers have clearly shown a willingness to pay for content, but no consumer has a bottomless pit of discretionary spending to pay for all of this.”
Tim Hanlon
