Picks Quotes · Page 8

Make us laugh and you can pick all pockets.

— Clemence Dane

If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only…

— Phyllis Schlafly

You could say that this book is ripped from the headlines, but that wouldn't be fair. Bret Anthony Johnston's riveting novel picks…

— Tom Perrotta

Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby...

— Shahrukh Khan

I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up…

— Ted Nugent

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

— Cory Doctorow

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

— Sharon Osbourne

Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.

— Grand Puba

I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who…

— Eva Mendes

I'm taking (the training) a little more seriously than I normally would to speed up the process. I don't care if people…

— Matt Holliday

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

— Pat Paulsen

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

— LeCrae

If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that…

— Robert Munsch

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from…

— Eugene McCarthy

The world has always been this way. I am sure in the mystery world of Egypt, ancient Atlantis, you pick a cosmos…

— Frederick Lenz

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got…

— Jeff Vespa

I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry.…

— Lisa Loeb

But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or…

— Stephen King

You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you…

— Eckhart Tolle

We have an expression in New York City government - "In God we trust, but for everyone else, bring data." It's so…

— Michael Bloomberg

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in.…

— Jose James

If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it…

— William Fitzsimmons

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for…

— Jeffrey Tayler

I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I…

— Joel Stein