Pick Quotes

#1. If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

Lou Holtz

#2. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.

A.M. Willard

#3. In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

Nick Saban

#4. If your intuitive channel is open but your tuner isn't dialed to your Higher Self, you may accidentally pick up on that negative energy without even knowing it. You may unconsciously tune in to another's anxiety, depression, or fear,

Sonia Choquette

#5. Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

Penn Jillette

#6. As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Martin O'Malley

#7. I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Philip Larkin

#8. Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Eminem

#9. I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

Demetri Martin

#10. A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

Neil Strauss

#11. Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.
the people of Lake Woebegon

Garrison Keillor

#12. But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the place where she really belonged, where it was always warm and you could dance in the rain, pick grapes right off the vines, and sleep outside at night under the stars.

Jeannette Walls

#13. Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

Thomas Merton

#14. We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

Diane Keaton

#15. The locker rooms were clean when we departed because I asked the players to pick up after themselves. I believe this is just common courtesy. Somebody's going to have to clean it up, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be the person who messed it up.

John Wooden

#16. Girls, do yourself a favor, don't ever bring us anywhere to pick anything out - ever, ever. You don't need us there.

Jim Breuer

#17. Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.

Rachel Nichols

#18. When I got tired, Logan would sing me to sleep, sometimes a painfully appropriate song like Flogging Molly's "If I Ever Leave This World Alive" or Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars." Sometimes he'd pick a lilting Irish lullaby, or even a song he'd written himself.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#19. 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

#20. If the lines are even, then we pick the line that has the least scary people in it."
"Jesus Christ." Elle heard Nero say.
"For fuck's sake," Amo chimed in.
"Motherfuckers," Vincent added.

Sarah Brianne

#21. You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.

Amy Chua

#22. You like him?"
I nodded. "I like him. Hell, Mogwai likes him."
"You could pick a worse judge of character than your cat," she said in a pragmatic voice.

Jacqueline Carey

#23. Trying to get an agent is like standing in line to be picked for kickball. Pick me! Pick me! ... Dang, last again.

Buffy Andrews

#24. Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Tracy Chapman

#25. As a 20th round pick nothing was handed to me in the minor leagues.

Mike Lowell

#26. See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

Terry Pratchett

#27. When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

Robert Loggia

#28. Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

Ben Mendelsohn

#29. NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

#30. Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. I've waited my whole life to sleep with you, Ellie Watt. I can't just pick you up from Safeway.

Karina Halle

#32. I work for a publishing company. We deal with both lunatics and nonlunatics. After a while an editor can pick out the lunatics right away. If somebody brings up the Templars, he's almost always a lunatic.

Umberto Eco

#33. I often wonder, with my hand on my heart, if 'The Dying Hours' was made into the biggest movie franchise in history, would I pick up my pen again? Wouldn't I be happier spending the rest of my life travelling around with my wife?

Mark Billingham

#34. 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

#35. Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.

Bernice Miller

#36. A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

Justin Trudeau

#37. I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

Robert Mankoff

#38. Real, rough and rugged, shine like a gold nugget,
Every time I pick up the microphone, I drug it.

Jeru The Damaja

#39. It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'

Philip Connors

#40. And I wasn't convinced that it was a good idea, sort of like asking for advice on how to catch a baseball in your teeth or pick all the cheese off your cheeseburger.

Raymond Chen

#41. My brother told me to pick him a winner.
So I dug up my nose,
And pulled out a chicken dinner.

Drew Bialko

#42. When you have a choice to be right or to be kind, always pick kind.

Wayne W. Dyer

#43. The first fat raindrop landed on the back of Galen's hand. He tilted back his head and saw the clouds he had noticed the previous eve had grown thicker, heavier with rain. They blocked the sun as the wind began to pick up. "Shite," Logan cursed as he stood. "Just what we need.

Donna Grant

#44. LaShon knew that there was no way that was going to happen. She had dealt with her fair share of jail relationships and every time the dude came home he expected to pick up things where they left off at as if nothing ever happened.

Kevina Hopkins

#45. I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

Sam Altman

#46. A man wants to pick up a woman. A woman just wants to be swept off her feet.

Jenna Alatari

#47. If only it were so easy to pick up the broken pieces of life, glue them back together, and cover them with paint like nothing had ever happened.

Patti Callahan Henry

#48. With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.

Twyla Tharp

#49. There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.

Helen Fisher

#50. What would it be like to pick and choose the objects and stories that would go into your own cabinet?

Brian Selznick

#51. I'm sure you do know how to pick guys back on the farm, but this is a whole different world. You can't just grunt and bend some guy over your tractor.

Maris Black

#52. What I mean is, one can't help one's fears. The question isn't if you're a fellow who cries in the night before a big engagement - and I knew a damned brave man who did exactly that, regularly. It's whether you pick yourself up the next day.

K.J. Charles

#53. If a band isn't coming up with two to four of those when they pick up their instruments, then they have problems - even if none of them turn into a song. If that's not happening in a band, it's time for therapy or breaking up.

Travis Morrison

#54. We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."

Gary Neville

#55. It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

Nikki Sixx

#56. Or does she still come here simply because it's become a habit, like a scar etched onto her body, one that she can't help but think about, scratch at, pick at, all the while hoping it will miraculously heal one day?

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

#57. Then you pick up and go on," she told him simply. "You're only a victim if you choose to be.

Nora Roberts

#58. I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it.

Thomas A. Edison

#59. If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church

J. Oswald Sanders

#60. They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on Jeopardy! and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

Jay Leno

#61. But here it is. So pick the bones from that. 'I think we need another tense for dreaming in,' I said, which made an old drunk shake his head and smile.

Sean O'Brien

#62. I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

Joanne Harris

#63. I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic people. We're not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There's this sense of 'pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.'

Nina Arianda

#64. Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charlie Chaplin

#65. We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

Madonna

#66. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Seth Godin

#67. There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

Kabir Bedi

#68. Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

Ralph Marston

#69. I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.

Camille Guaty

#70. You ever tried to pick up your teeth with a bunch of broken fingers

Triple H

#71. He has one hand over her mound and works his fingers as if he was playing guitar, making beautiful music with her tiny button. He serenades her with a love song that only his fingers know how to pick- a tune that no man can duplicate.

Jane Emery

#72. After a tragic incident you never remain the same. You pick up the pieces and emerge as a stronger, better version of yourself.

Trishna Damodar

#73. The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.

Anne Tyler

#74. If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

Pearl Cleage

#75. You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

Ian McKellen

#76. When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Bob Feller

#77. Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.

Brittany Snow

#78. There was also a phrase for him: pick at random any citizen from Maycomb County and its environs, ask him what he thought of Atticus Finch, and the answer would most likely be, "I never had a better friend." Atticus

Harper Lee

#79. What do you think the most gruelin' thing about evolution is?" "I don't know. Tell me," I said. "It's being unable to pick and choose. Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late." I

Haruki Murakami

#80. Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#81. I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.

Powers Boothe

#82. People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

Lisa See

#83. on errands every day, if only to pick

Dean Koontz

#84. It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.

Daniel Abraham

#85. I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.

Ted Nugent

#86. You've gotta pick your battles in this world...

John Green

#87. Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
I like slam dunks, take me to the hoop my favorite play is the alley-oop
I like the pick-and-roll, I like the give-and-go
Cause it's basketball, uh, Mister Kurtis Blow.

Kurtis Blow

#88. Heroines did not pick their own battles - the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

Gordon Dahlquist

#89. Never pick a fight with someone you're not sure you can defeat.

Robert Greene

#90. Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?

Derek Webb

#91. I'd die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you'd pick them?

Cassandra Clare

#92. When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

Edie Brickell

#93. Our work in the world calls for many hands at the wheel. Planet earth is crying out in pain, and Christians have to pick up their crosses and follow Christ, his apostles and saints. These were all shining lights in a broken world ...

Erwin K. Thomas

#94. Whenever feasible, pick your team on character, not skill. You can teach skills; you can't teach character.

Ranulph Fiennes

#95. When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

Toni Morrison

#96. I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

Ang Lee

#97. Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.

Kate Winslet

#98. If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

Bob McNair

#99. Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

Jodi Picoult

#100. As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with.

Hilary Swank