Picks Quotes · Page 15

Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

— Lil Wayne

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

— Robert Louis Stevenson

For in Virginia, a plaine Souldier that can use a Pick-axe and spade, is better than five Knights.

— John Smit

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

— Scott Nicholson

I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.

— Andy Roddick

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

— Robin Williams

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

— Paul Krassner

Pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one else is likely to.

— Catherine DeVrye

President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.'

— David Letterman

No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to…

— Bert McCracken

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be…

— Philip Toshio Sudo

Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth…

— Sue Monk Kidd

What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a…

— E. J. Dionne

I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't…

— Emo Philips

I met a lot of amazing people whose lives were changed (for the better) by the power of music. Music gave them…

— Lita Ford

I'm not the kind of man that holds out on a need for nothing. I'm as lonely as any man around, I…

— Toby Keith

I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and…

— Richard Ashcroft

I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton…

— Joanna Page

Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if…

— Steven Spielberg

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I found music I thought, that's what I want to do, but the idea of it being a job never crossed…

— Caleb Followill

People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the…

— Brooke Fraser

If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing.…

— Russell James

The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the…

— Anne Tyler

I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a…

— Michael Scott

Anyway everyboy (sorry) knows that what women have done that is really important is not to constitute a great, cheap labor force…

— Joanna Russ

The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the…

— Chris Hayes

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should…

— Jesse Helms

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

— Cory Doctorow

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit…

— Mario Cuomo

I want to walk like I’m the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

— Kim Addonizio

By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

— Sam Altman

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

— F. Lee Bailey

You can not make me pick between my roles! That is like making me pick between my children!

— Joshua Rush

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

— Axl Rose

Never pick up a stray kitten . . . unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Give me a thrill, says the reader, Give me a kick; I don't care how you succeed, or What subject you pick.

— Philip Larkin

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

— Howard Jacobson

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

— Al Gore