Picker Quotes

#1. Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you're going to run out of fruit.

Shawn Achor

#2. The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

Youssou N'Dour

#3. Call me Autolycus. Well, no, don't. Although I am, like that unfunny clown, a picker-up of unconsidered trifles. Which is a fancy way of saying I steal things

John Banville

#4. No simple cherry picker for me, she thought. I get a time-traveling genius who comes with a world of problems and sends me back through time to fix them.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. Your tits are like Bounty. The quicker dick picker upper.

Tara Sivec

#6. In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

Michael Lewis

#7. Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.

Sam Wazan

#8. I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.

Mick Ralphs

#9. A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers

E. E. Cummings

#11. We're dying of boredom, Corporal, that's the problem.' [Blend]
'If boredom was fatal there wouldn't be a soldier alive on this whole world, Blend.' [Picker]

Stephen Erickson

#12. As my friend, Herb Gardner, once said about writing, "Don't they realize they're paying us for doing something we'd be thrilled to do for nothing?

David V. Picker

#13. A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

Fred Picker

#14. I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

Lisa McMann

#15. I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.

Barnabas

#16. Maybe he's a nose picker. But it is a pretty nose, so... "Everything

Emma Hart

#17. I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

Nancy Reagan

#18. Don't be creative when you should be mechanical, and don't be mechanical when you should be creative.

Fred Picker

#19. Peace can start with just one heart.

Holly Near

#20. Assuming that all things are equal,
Who'd want to be men of the people,
When there's people like you?

Arctic Monkeys

#21. I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser
that's my nature.

John Wayne

#22. I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

Elie Wiesel

#23. $16 billion in complex securities whose value ultimately turned on the ability of a Las Vegas stripper with five investment properties, or a Mexican strawberry picker with a single $750,000 home, to make rapidly rising interest payments.

Michael Lewis

#24. A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

Fred Picker

#25. When he texts you, he's thinking about you. When he calls you, he misses you. When he shows up, he wants you. When he suddenly stops doing all of the above for you, he's doing it for someone else.

Amari Soul

#26. I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.

Emily Murdoch

#27. When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Horace Mann

#28. The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

Charlie Munger

#29. In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

Eartha Kitt

#30. Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.

Alexei Panshin

#31. Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Eckhart Tolle

#32. His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment.
This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.

Karen Marie Moning

#33. Practice the mechanics of making photographs until it becomes second nature.

Fred Picker