Top 100 Quotes About Picking Up
#1. What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing on your neck the other day was just a fluke. I guess not--looks like you get off on picking up a few souvenirs when you...get off. ~Crash
Jordan Castillo Price
#2. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.
Anne Rice
#3. I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
R. Kelly
#4. Don't worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.
Shannon Celebi
#5. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.
Barbara Woodhouse
#6. It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.
Jodi Picoult
#7. I'm just me. If I am sexy, it's just something I do naturally, like picking up a knife and fork to eat. I think people who try to be sexy are the most unsexy people in the world.
Sharon Tate
#8. I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate
Sandra Cisneros
#9. Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."
Questlove
#10. These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Patrick Macnee
#11. Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religious sanction for it.
Jeffrey Tayler
#12. Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
Georgette Mosbacher
#13. Disobedience is a sure recipe for disaster, picking up the pieces is even harder
Kudakwashe Mazendame
#14. I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else
all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
Lauren DeStefano
#15. It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.
Peter Kay
#16. Scattered wits take a long time picking up; and often before I had got them well together, they would be dispersed in all directions by one stray thought,
Charles Dickens
#17. All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.
Thomas Perry
#18. I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.
Ingrid Weir
#19. Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.
William J. Mitchell
#20. The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But to my way of thinking, at least in winter, woolly warmth trumps freezing fashion any day of the week.
Alan Bradley
#21. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you'll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.
Pierce Brown
#22. I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.
Jodie Whittaker
#23. I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
Kate Voegele
#24. It was a gorgeous day. A fucking gorgeous day. It was one of those bright, breezy, unicorn-and-puppy mornings. I mean, the unicorns weren't out yet. They tend to be more nocturnal to increase the odds of picking up virgins at nightclubs, but there were a couple pegasi kicking it overhead.
Kate Danley
#25. Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time.
Ozzy Osbourne
#26. It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar.
John Scofield
#27. I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.
Marvin Hamlisch
#28. One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H.L. Mencken
#29. You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
Janet Jackson
#30. I think it just helps to be very aware that fundamentally, there are no adults. Everyone is making it up as they go along. You have to find your own path, picking, choosing, taking and discarding as you see fit.
Naval Ravikant
#31. The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you're trying to say and express.
Martin Parr
#32. Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
Wallace Stevens
#33. You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on?
Shannen Doherty
#34. Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a new chapter was beginning. Nothing would ever be the same as it had been before. I just hoped this chapter wouldn't be the final one in the book.
Rose Wynters
#35. The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process - picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.
RuPaul
#36. There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger.
"But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.
Suzanne Collins
#37. In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
Zach Condon
#38. A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge
Robert Breault
#39. Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!
Carmela Dutra
#40. Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
Ally Carter
#41. At least if I
was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.
C.E. Murphy
#42. Martha Quest, who thought of herself as so adventurous, so free and unbounded - the fact was, even the idea of picking up a telephone and making herself known to a new person troubled her: she made excuses, she could not do it.
Doris Lessing
#43. God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.
Jay Asher
#44. People say you have someone important in your life when you can reconnect with them easily. When picking up with them right where you left off, even after being apart for a long time, comes naturally.
Paige Laurens
#45. At last reluctantly Gandalf himself took a hand. Picking up a faggot he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen! he thrust the end of his staff into the midst of it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.
Jason Reitman
#47. The great mountains of wars and conflicts in the world can only be removed by picking up tiny stones of hatred and anger bit by bit. We must all be involved!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
Raoul Vaneigem
#49. I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
Jane Austen
#50. According to Paul in Romans 2, the conscience is like a radio receiver picking up transmissions from that seat of justice.
Timothy Keller
#51. If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them ... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.
Dianne Feinstein
#52. I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.
Lou Doillon
#53. Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
Katharine Weymouth
#54. Death rode the sky, alright," Adrian summarized of that day, in a sad tone of resignation that was repeated in the voice of one survivor after another. "I can close my eyes right now and see that tornado picking up the old Ross place, and just blowing it up.
Angela Mason
#55. Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
Robert MacNeil
#56. Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
Brene Brown
#57. And I just keep going and going, picking up pins and stabbing them into the paper until the map is covered with places I'll never see and the clear plastic box is as empty as I am.
Tamara Ireland Stone
#58. When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
Gagan Narang
#59. My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.
Leonard Lauder
#60. I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
Roy Wood
#61. I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine.
Anthony Rizzo
#62. There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.
Rick Ross
#63. Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why.
Joe Schreiber
#64. Human beings act very much like storms when there's something to say. Very rarely in nature does a deluge catch you by complete surprise. There are the signs before
the sky darkening, the wind picking up, the air smelling like rain even before a drop has hit.
David Levithan
#65. Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.
Tony Dungy
#66. social phobics are better at picking up on subtle social cues than other people are - but they tend to overinterpret anything that could be construed as a negative reaction.
Scott Stossel
#67. My goal is to encourage our little ones to make reading a habit. To enjoy picking up a book. So that the habit continues throughout life.
Andrea L'Artiste
#68. I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
Matthew Perry
#69. He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.
Sarah Dessen
#70. Well, now that we've knocked over one another's books, isn't the next step for our hands to accidentally touch while we're picking them up?
Lauren Kate
#71. I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.
June Carter Cash
#72. Living in L.A., you couldn't help picking up tidbits of the surf culture, almost through osmosis ... it was in the air, like vitamin D and the odd Brad Pitt sighting.
Ophelia London
#73. 'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.
Trisha Yearwood
#74. Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don't give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces ...
Rita Mae Brown
#75. That's odd. It looks almost as if Nick is picking a fight with that elephant."
"Well, the elephant started it."
"That's irrelevant. Fighting with civilians is against the rules. Go break it up."
-Admiral Breya Andreyasn & Sergeant Schlock
Howard Tayler
#76. Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?"
She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her face.
"What's it like?"
"Hard," she replied.
Zack Love
#77. What if I can't forget you?
I'll burn your name into my throat,
I'll be the fire that'll catch you.
What's so good about picking up the pieces?
What if I don't even want to?
Caraphernelia By Pierce The Veil
#78. Maybe we slip in and out of alternate worlds through our minds and our imaginations, picking up scar tissue from other dimensions.
Lang Leav
#79. As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.
David Lambert
#80. I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.
Eliot Spitzer
#81. When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.
Prince William
#82. The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun-worn pier, and the humans had just gotten the news and taken a powder.
Jonathan Lethem
#83. You," I say accusingly, picking it up and rolling it between my fingers. "This is all your fault.
Tarryn Fisher
#84. People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine.
Jennifer McMahon
#85. I could feel the muscles in my face twitch as his response sunk into me. It was a resounding no with a slap of you fucking drunk attached.
Cassandra Giovanni
#86. We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Charles Dickens
#87. The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension
J. Robbins
#88. Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.
Renee Olstead
#89. I'm not the best singer in the world; I'm just good at picking up what I want to sound like.
Shawn Mendes
#90. ...the breeze twirled in on itself, picking up the cut grass on the road, spinning a confused chicken around a few times, then straightening back out.
Sara Taylor
#91. As an athlete, you sort of just win every day. Because you're going to sometimes lose every day. And so you just keep picking yourself up and going forward.
Beth Brooke
#92. A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.
Bai Juyi
#93. Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.
Wayne McGregor
#94. In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
Peabo Bryson
#95. Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.
Damien Echols
#96. That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue.
Sanford Meisner
#97. When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#98. Since the teachers weren't picking, I ended up with a boy with bad body odour. 'You should wear deodorant,' I said to him. 'And you should shut your trap,' he replied.
Lorna Schultz Nicholson
#99. ..all of us who are sealed to the Library are people who have chosen this way of life because we love books. None of us wanted to save worlds. I mean, not that we object to saving worlds..." She shrugged, picking up her teacup again "We want books. We love books. We live with books.
Genevieve Cogman
#100. Picking up the phone to say hello, somehow I never had. Are you okay?
Donna Tartt