Top 100 Quotes About Picks
#1. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
Eric Kripke
#2. So your stance on beards is?" His gaze so strong I feel it in my toes. My breathing picks up. "Don't particularly like them.
Kristen Callihan
#3. It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.
Estella Warren
#4. Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
#5. 'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
Cary Fukunaga
#6. She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.
Norman Vincent Peale
#7. When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.
Les Paul
#8. How many a thing which we cast to the ground, When others pick it up, becomes a gem!
George Meredith
#9. UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
David Wolfe
#11. It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.
Charles Colson
#12. I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
Derek Blasberg
#13. He was in his secret room in the heart now. Having entered he could be bold. A man hasn't to be on his best behavior in Heaven; he can kick the furniture around. He can stoop down and picks up lumps of mortality without being born again to die.
Patrick Kavanagh
#14. Attitude is everything, so pick a good one
Wayne Dyer
#15. The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.
Joel Greenblatt
#16. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.
George Herbert
#17. God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been
Douglas Wilson
#18. I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.
Kathleen Hanna
#19. Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey ... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
Gene Simmons
#20. Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted
Doc Rivers
#21. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Steven Wright
#22. God has called 'chit prasannta' (blissful state of chit) as happiness. Even when someone swears at you, picks your pocket; the 'chit prasannta' doesn't go away! Even at two o'clock in the morning, the 'chit prasannta' does not go away.
Dada Bhagwan
#23. When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.
George Lucas
#24. Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.
Jef Mallett
#25. Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.
Martin Scorsese
#26. The colours of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea wind picks up her hair violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.
Dawson Trotman
#28. Nothing picks me up quicker than a movie, a Coca-Cola, and a box of popcorn. I could walk in feeling like I didn't want to live anymore, and walk out on cloud nine.
Rebecca Wells
#29. You dial another college friend, Dr. Saunders, and she picks up almost immediately, 'Hi! Got a shitstorm here, what's up?
A.J. Lauer
#30. The paranormal, you can't pick and choose. It's all or nothing.
Zak Bagans
#31. A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it's marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.
Elizabeth Hay
#32. Most kids might not think that riding the bus to school is all that awesomesauce, but that's only until your mom makes you go with her every morning and then lectures you about not using your magical powers the whole way to school and then picks you up and lectures you the whole way home.
Wendy Mass
#33. When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.
Tony Wilson
#34. You choose men the same way a child picks out a new puppy; first one who crawls in your lap is yours.
Alison Bliss
#35. The midfield picks itself - Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A N Other.
Phil Neal
#36. It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?
Trisha Goddard
#37. If someone picks up a third party and throws him at you down at the bottom of a deep well ... may you use your ray gun to disintegrate the falling body before it crushes and kills you?
Robert Nozick
#38. The leader sets the tone for his followers. If something goes wrong and the leader acts worried or angry, then everyone picks up on that attitude and it spirals larger and larger.
Jim Korkis
#39. Lucien," Gavriel said, "if you're proposing a duel, I believe she gets to pick the weapon. I hope she picks me.
Holly Black
#40. Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she's the little eccentric that could.
Robin Sloan
#42. When people let youd own, God will pick you up.
LeCrae
#43. Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.
Rajon Rondo
#44. Every woman is a hallway full of locked doors under different names: past, future, hopes, fears, lust, and love. Some men come with keys. Some men come with lick picks. Byron St. James comes with a chainsaw.
Jessica Gadziala
#45. Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!
Jamie Lee Curtis
#46. Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Uriah shouts, Gross!
Veronica Roth
#47. A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
Gene Tierney
#48. When you consider someone without assumptions, your inner antenna picks up a new signal. Instead of tuning in to someone's personality, you tune in to his or her essence. This essence is spirit, and when you detect it, the natural response is love.
Deepak Chopra
#49. What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed?
Jodi Picoult
#50. Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.
Zach Braff
#51. Time can move quickly when it loses its memory, or when there are no new memories to create. Reality's vulture flies down and picks at the bones of our dreams.
John Dolan
#52. Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.
GG Allin
#53. Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters,
So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.
Grantland Rice
#54. The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
John Brunner
#55. Judge: Take the stand.
Curly: [picks the chair up] Where'll I put it?
Judge: No, no, take the stand!
Curly: I got it! Now what'll I do with it?
Court clerk: [angrily sets it back down] SIDDOWN!
The Three Stooges
#56. Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.
Earl Scruggs
#57. He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.
Patti Smith
#58. The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
Laurie Nadel
#59. The kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio ...
Tom McNeal
#60. I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.
Neil Sedaka
#61. All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
#62. We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.
Charles Koch
#63. She picks off my glasses and kisses the parts of my face that almost never get touched, the skin under the glass and frame
Junot Diaz
#64. In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then
ruins more than that, if you're not careful.
Elizabeth Kostova
#65. I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.
Peleg Top
#66. You either have to be great or you have to be bad to get a good pick.
Magic Johnson
#67. She'd wanted to completely shave her head: I don't want long hair, I don't want short hair, I don't want hair at all, and I don't want to be a girl or a boy, I want to be a yellow and orange leaf some little kid picks up and pastes in his scrapbook.
Sherman Alexie
#68. During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.
Peter Lynch
#69. It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
Bill Hader
#70. Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.
Eric Van Lustbader
#71. The rain picks up outside. It hits and slams against the window, but I think it sounds like music
a light mix of tambourine and cymbals. The wind sounds like a guitar, all low, melancholy notes. Thunder takes the drums. I'm quiet as I listen to the song.
Katie Kacvinsky
#72. First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.
L. M. Boyd
#73. I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.
Eliza Doolittle
#74. Only is a powerful word. It is extreme. It picks a fight. It draws a line in the sand.
Rob Rienow
#75. Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.
Lurlene McDaniel
#76. It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.
Bob Kersee
#77. Guys hated to play against me because my stock in trade was constant movement. I was quick but not fast so I would move my defender into picks, from one end of the court to another and wear him out until I had him tired and off-guard.
Dolph Schayes
#78. I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.
Benazir Bhutto
#79. And, father, how can I love you
Or any of my brothers more?
I love you like the little bird
That picks up crumbs around the door.
William Blake
#80. Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.
Mother Teresa
#81. Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.
Lea Michele
#82. The uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.
Hannah More
#83. The responsibility of building leadership in the Church belongs to the father and the mother ... As youth grow and mature through their teenage years and move toward adulthood, the Church picks up an important role in this process of giving youth an opportunity to lead, but it begins in the home.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#84. Pick me Amelia. Please, pick me. Be the one who finally picks me.
Stormy Smith
#85. You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.
Bryan Batt
#86. The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?
Shane Claiborne
#87. I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.
Carolyn Hax
#88. Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.
John Petrucci
#90. They hit the highway, she jacked up the music and he experienced the unusual desire to beg someone to drive ice picks in his ears so he wouldn't have to listen to it.
Kristen Ashley
#91. No, white women like to keep their hands clean. They got a shiny little set a tools they use, sharp as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gonna take they time with em.
Kathryn Stockett
#92. Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
Sarah Dessen
#93. Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.
Joel Osteen
#94. I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.
Jennette McCurdy
#95. For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.
Amber Heard
#96. The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.
Theodore Zeldin
#97. I used to pick Priuses out of the grill of my Hummer.
Jeff Dunham
#98. A bluetick hound bays out there in the fog, running scared and lost because he can't see. No tracks on the ground but the one's he's making, and he sniffs in every direction with his cold red-rubber nose and picks up no scent but his own fear, fear burning down into him like steam.
Ken Kesey
#99. As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.
George Saunders
#100. There's a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.
E.K. Johnston
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