Top 100 Pick One Quotes
#2. I'd be the first to admit that I have no shortage of faults.
But if I had to pick one, the one that's gotten me into the most trouble over the years...
...it would be that I sometimes get angry.
Mike Mignola
#3. If I have on a bright red lip, you'll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It's one or the other for me - pick one feature for the day and really focus on that.
Solange Knowles
#4. You should pick one, Kiera. Pick one, and release the other. You can't keep them both. -Jenny
S.C. Stephens
#5. We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
Lakshmi Pratury
#6. I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
Janis Ian
#7. Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
Bill Keller
#8. If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions.
Doug Stanhope
#9. And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.
C.W. Gortner
#10. Mr. Ellison is like a pomegranate: messy, leaves stains, more seeds than meat, but you pick one by one and discover all the little bits were worth it.
Avra Amar Filion
#11. I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.
David Letterman
#12. If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.
Mickey Mantle
#13. If you could pick one word in the English language to describe the universe, what would it be? Why?"
Here's my response:
Unfair.
Jordan Sonnenblick
#14. I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
Bear Bryant
#15. The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
Andrew Stanton
#16. Make sure you pick one up as you leave class so you can start brainstorming ideas. That's it. Class dismissed.
Jessica Sorensen
#17. You don't have to choose, Hannah. It's not success or fun. It's not life or love. You don't have to just pick one door to walk through. You can have both. It's okay. You just have to go out and do something about it. Don't sit back and let life happen to you. Go grab what you want, whatever it is.
Jessica Love
#18. Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?"
"A long time ago, they used to appear wearing robes and golden girtles," Ivy explained.
"They sound like losers," Xavier muttered.
Alexandra Adornetto
#19. I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?
Elizabeth Moon
#20. If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.
Demetri Martin
#21. We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.
Jenji Kohan
#22. Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.
Neil Diamond
#23. Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#24. I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.
Hugh Laurie
#25. To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. I just really, really love food, so I don't have a favourite. But if I had to pick one to eat every day, it would be Italian. But I also love Chinese and Japanese food.
Daniel Humm
#27. When you are made to choose between two good things ... Don't just think of what you'll get when you pick one. But think of what you'll lose when you don't choose the other.
Noemie Lenoir
#28. When it comes to making a decision, look at both sides, listen to your heart, then pick one and dive in.
Diane Chamberlain
#29. We are surrounded by monsters," she said. "We can cower before them or we can pick one and sink our teeth in with the aim to give it hell.
Eli Brown
#30. I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.
Andy Roddick
#31. You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
Levon Helm
#32. I only pick one thing; North, South, East or West. I just get on the road and go. That's the point. The only governor I give myself is what's the time limit.
Matthew McConaughey
#33. If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.
Jill Douglas
#34. I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft.
Dwayne McDuffie
#35. There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'
Sara Ramirez
#36. If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.
Bruce Parry
#37. You can always tell about motels," Al advises. "You wanna lie low, pick one's gotta car with a flat parked at a unit"
"Why?" I ask.
"Car with a flat says cash, cheap, and close.
Ted Staunton
#38. Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created.
You know, I think I show a lot of promise, I say.
Get dressed, you worthless thing.
Suzanne Collins
#39. Pick one item, keep it in your hand then leave your house. Then "Quit to Title" and go back to the game again. Place the item anywhere and then go to your device's home screen. Close the app. Now start it again. You will realize you have duplicated the item now!
Minecraft Addict
#40. My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.
Nikki Giovanni
#41. instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.
Kamal Ravikant
#42. Are you expecting someone to poison you?" he said, somewhat taken aback.
"Not really. But it seems to me that if you wait around until you know you need an antidote, it's probably too late to pick one up.
Patrick Rothfuss
#43. I bend down and pick one up. The cover is dark, of a house and a girl, merging together as one. It's creepy. I can't imagine sitting up here alone, reading books like this in the dark.
Colleen Hoover
#44. Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
Harrison Ford
#45. I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one.
Lights
#46. If you force me to pick one color, it'd be Black ... It covers up the things inside of me that I don't want to be known. Well, for the same reason, black is the color I hate, too ...
Gosho Aoyama
#47. I touch 100 flowers, but don't pick one.
Kami Garcia
#48. Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Bob Dylan
#49. You can't have an inferiority complex and a superiority complex. Just pick one.
Anna Breslaw
#50. Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
Padma Lakshmi
#51. I do like British guys. If I had to pick one it would be Ewan McGregor. I met him once and he was gorgeous, even if he is a little short. He has the most amazing charisma.
Eva Longoria
#52. There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
Isaac Hanson
#53. There are so many things I've done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It's going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
Bernard Hopkins
#54. Just pick one?" Nicholas repeated slowly, raising his eyes heavenwards. "You are aware we are not shopping for horseflesh but attempting to find you a future duchess? Do keep that in mind, old friend.
Rachel Van Dyken
#55. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.
Flavia Weedn
#56. What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.
Mario Cuomo
#57. If I had to pick one scary movie, I'd go with John Carpenter's 'The Thing.' That's probably number one.
Drew Goddard
#58. I can remember every moment we were together, and in each of them there was something wonderful. I can't really pick any one time that meant more than any other. The entire summer was perfect, the kind of summer everyone should have. How could I pick one moment over another?
Nicholas Sparks
#59. I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.
Kelly Corrigan
#60. I found an online knife store. I'd rather go and pick one up so that I had it today, but then I noticed they had a category called. California Legal. Apparently, I lived in a state that had really solid knife control-but still allowed you to own a machine gun. Logical.
Marshall Thornton
#61. I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.
Shel Silverstein
#62. If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...
Jim Brault
#63. There are probably a dozen perfect happy endings you could write. And a thousand bittersweet ones, and at least a million that are gloriously tragic. Alas, you only get to pick one.
Scott Westerfeld
#64. I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.
Larry David
#65. We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
Axl Rose
#66. I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160 ... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.
Aubrey Peeples
#67. A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It's up to you.
Vicky Arthurs
#68. Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.
Gloria Steinem
#69. Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.
Amanda Penland
#70. For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.
Stefan Edberg
#71. If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
#73. I don't know how doctors pick one specialty over another. Some you can understand. Pediatricians. Or gynecologists delivering babies, bringing a new life into the world, but how does someone want to be a proctologist? How can you fall in love with proctology?
Bob Newhart
#74. You have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can't trust anyone anymore, because they're all after the same thing, and you see that you can never go back to how was before ...
Ned Vizzini
#75. I'd have to say that my favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning. 'Little Miss Sunshine' is like that. That's my fave genre, if I had to pick one.
Alan Arkin
#76. If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.
Sarah McLachlan
#77. Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.
Steve Chandler
#78. If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.
Nick Offerman
#79. I like so many different genres of music that I guess it would be hard for me to pick one person who inspires me when so many people inspire me to make good music.
Rahki
#80. He was developing a sneaking feeling he had found his way onto the wrong side. Again. But it's not always easy to tell when you're picking. Perhaps, as Kahdia once told him, you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.
Joe Abercrombie
#81. Layney - "I hear they sell them at Evil 'R Us. You have an account
there, don't you? Maybe you can pick one up on the 'still
beating/just pulled from a sacrifice' aisle."
Jimmy - "Do you have any idea how expensive those are? Even with
my discount.
Gwen Hayes
#82. If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
Scott Adams
#83. My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.
Casey James
#84. I furrowed my brows at him. What was so amazing about a stick? I could pick one up outside on the way to the car.
Let me guess, you're Harry Potter and this is the school of Hogwarts. If I say Lumos will it light up?
Brandi Salazar
#85. You are so beautiful, Layla. And if I could pick one thing I could stare at for the rest of eternity, it would be you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#86. If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you
Rick Riordan
#87. A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away
Leo Tolstoy
#88. For me Brazilian music is the perfect mix of melody and rhythm. It just bubbles rhythmically. If I had to pick just one music style to play if would be Brazilian.
Herbie Mann
#89. I'm Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it.
Joe Dempsie
#90. In fact, I noticed everything about Alex. Like that his left nostril was slightly larger than his right nostril. And the way he ate a Kit Kat bar: chocolate first and then the layers of wafer separately. I could pick his one sneeze in a room full of sneezers.
Autumn Doughton
#91. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
Sam Palladio
#92. This pick is going to be one where people look back and say that was the right guy.
Bryan Colangelo
#93. Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
Michael Scott
#94. Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.
Natalie Goldberg
#95. I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy ... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.
Archie Panjabi
#96. Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment."
Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know what it said?"
"I bet you'll tell me."
" 'If you're reading this, you are one.' "
You're a riot.
Brandon Mull
#97. We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
Stephen Covey
#98. There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.
Benjamin Graham
#99. The band that changed my life was The Who. It's hard to pick just one album, but if I had to pick the one that really showed me how things could be done, it's 'The Who Sell Out.' They really went to town on that, doing something that no one had ever done before.
Buzz Osborne
#100. No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.
Harrison Ford
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