Slim Pickings Quotes

#1. In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted.

Alice Pung

#2. Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

Eric S. Raymond

#3. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Simone Weil

#4. A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy.

Toba Beta

#5. I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

#6. Yes, I'm quirky, loud and crazy.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#7. [He] prepared to forget his distress by flinging himself ... into 'the vortex of pleasure.

Gaston Leroux

#8. If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes

Plato

#9. The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

Shirley Maclaine

#10. My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

Steven Tyler

#11. The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

Alex Ferguson

#12. Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone.

Bill Gaither

#13. It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem.

Barry Marshall

#14. Guns and swords are ineffective against the complex and varied assaults of an environment thrown out of natural balance.

Ed McGaa

#15. After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must take it seriously before it comes to hurt us. In the old days we'd see a threat, and we could deal with it if we felt like it or not. But 9/11 changed it all.

George W. Bush

#16. There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.

Tim LaHaye

#17. Human beings disappear; their histories remain.

Bernard Stiegler