Unpicked Quotes

#1. September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

Robert Lowell

#2. And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

Gavin Douglas

#3. The un-people, the anti-tribe, humanity's sack unpicked and sewn together again with the moon inside.

Clive Barker

#4. You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.

Rumi

#5. To leave the apple unpicked - that was sin.

Mary Doria Russell

#6. One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

Matt Haig

#7. It was as though their life, thought Frances, were being mercilessly spooled back on to a reel; or as if, one by one, the stitches that had fastened them together were being unpicked.

Sarah Waters

#8. That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's all.'
She smiled. 'That is all. You are right. And that is all that All ever is.

Robin Hobb

#9. What a ridiculous sentiment. 'Adventures' is just a different name for 'terrible ideas.

Cecil Castellucci

#10. Be an advocate of love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#11. My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins

Cynthia Hand

#12. The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.

Bill Vaughan

#13. Always do what you feel deeply in the within to be the true thing to do.

Wallace D. Wattles