Pickers Quotes

#1. You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.

Hank Williams Jr.

#4. We are a dangerous breed, you and I. We are lock pickers. We are dangerous to others and ourselves. It is always a great risk to open a door if you don't know what's behind it.

Zia Haider Rahman

#5. Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.

Charles Duhigg

#6. We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

John Anderson

#7. He crashed a dozen Cadillacs in one year and played the Apollo. With racial hatred burning in the headlines, the audience danced in the seats to a white boy from the bottomland, backed by pickers who talked like Ernest Tubb. "James Brown kissed me on my cheek," he says. "Top that.

Rick Bragg

#8. Odin keep us.' Hakon's wisdom on the subject. 'He's as likely to as the White Christ.' I had no bone to pick with heathen bone-pickers. One god or many, none of them ever seemed to like us much.

Mark Lawrence

#9. Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

Chet Atkins

#10. Although professionals are able to extract a considerable amount of wealth from amateurs, few stock pickers, if any, have the skill needed to beat the market consistently, year after year.

Daniel Kahneman

#11. As the sweet apple reddens on a high branch, high on the highest branch the apple pickers forgot
no, not forgot: were unable to reach.

Kathryn Davis

#12. As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.

Charlie Rich

#13. I sneaked a little bunch of grapes, which I love but can't ever have, because Mom doesn't like the way the grape pickers are treated in California and she refuses to buy them. *

Rebecca Stead

#14. Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it ...

Dennis Overbye

#15. The neon dust falls slowly, filtering through the stone canyons, settling on hats and fire hydrants, collecting on delicatessen awnings, filling the shopping carts and rickety baby carriages of the rag pickers with soft powdery snow.

Donald O'Donovan

#16. I'd compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don't want to bad mouth astrologers.

Eugene Fama

#17. The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

Mo Yan

#18. Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

Karl Marx

#19. The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

Helmut Newton

#20. Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Ed Bliss

#21. When Tally glanced out at the glowing horizon, her eyes opened wide. She'd never seen dawn from outside the city before. Like most uglies, she was rarely up early enough, and in any case the horizon was always hidden behind the skyline of New Pretty Town. The sight of a real sunrise amazed her. A

Scott Westerfeld

#22. There's something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility, like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Alan Palomo

#23. Because you made it here on a lot less" he says and he has no idea how on the mark he is.

Courtney Summers

#24. Order is Heaven's first law.

Dale Carnegie

#25. The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Chuck Jones