Pick Quotes
2633 quotes by 1941 authors
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We know that every father has a personal responsibility to do right by their kids - to encourage them to turn off the video games…
— Barack Obama
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in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief
— Yosa Buson
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It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something that I can…
— James Roday
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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the…
— Walter Moers
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...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here…
— John Cheever
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If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
— Scott Adams
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has…
— Swami Vivekananda
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[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction…
— Martin Scorsese
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And the reward when good people die - her mother paused, swallowed, paused again - the reward when good people die is that they get…
— Dara Horn
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In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds,…
— Tom Turner
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You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.
— Diane Lane
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When you're over the hill, that's when you pick up speed.
— Quincy Jones
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There once was an umpire whose vision Was cause for abuse and derision He remarked in surprise, 'Why pick on my eyes? It's my heart…
— Ogden Nash
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The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but…
— Babe Ruth
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I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.
— Mike Ditka
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