Picks Quotes · Page 16

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 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 read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you…

— Abbie Cornish

I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric…

— Keith Richards

The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's…

— Suzy Menkes

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

— Dani Rodrik

I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up…

— Brian Austin Green

There is a certain amount of pornography that exists throughout Purple Rain, but the appeal is obvious. You can really pick that…

— Gene Kelly

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 called my grandmother yesterday. She picks up the phone, 'Oh hello, dear, hold on a second, I just stepped out of…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

When I met with Peter Angell, the producer of the CD, we talked about my idea to do songs that I loved…

— Thelma Houston

I hate to say it because I think people are risk averse these days more than ever. Before they even pick up…

— Gregory Heisler

In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense…

— Peter Medawar

When we were starting our community a bunch of older Benedictine nuns said to us, "If you have any questions or want…

— Shane Claiborne

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play…

— Bob Marley

Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna…

— Anthony Scaramucci

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

— Al Gore

Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.

— Rick Santorum

I wear what I like to wear, I don't pick out clothes to try to fit in or whatever, I just like…

— G-Eazy

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

— Bridget Riley

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

— Courteney Cox

Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

— Taylor Hanson

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

— Richard Branson

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

— Albert Einstein

Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.

— Adam Sandler

We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

— Owen Feltham

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

— Keanu Reeves

First truck called a 'pick-up' was an International Harvester S in 1921.

— L. M. Boyd

I think to many people, textured curls still signify 'difference.' And kids like to pick on what's different.

— Guido Palau

We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

— Chris Matthews

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

— Patrick Wilson

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

— Ralph Nader