Picking Quotes
559 quotes by 509 authors
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of…
— Daniel Ellsberg
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I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not…
— Tina Fey
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If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds…
— Paul Feig
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I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually…
— Tom Felton
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I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward…
— Nathan Fillion
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through…
— Eddie Van Halen
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After months of playing air guitar to 'Free Bird', what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up…
— Kirk Hammett
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You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking…
— Janet Jackson
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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
— Wyclef Jean
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There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that…
— Daniel Kahneman
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When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
— Anna Kendrick
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
— Jack Lemmon
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
— Sam Levenson
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I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to…
— Steve Martin
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to…
— H. L. Mencken
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Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of…
— Renee Olstead
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There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
— Plautus
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New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of…
— Anna Quindlen
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People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't…
— Jason Reitman
Who Wrote These Picking Quotes
509 authors contributed a total of 559 Picking Quotes, led by these top contributors: