Picking Quotes

559 quotes by 509 authors

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating. — Jessica Mitford
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereâ€™s no sense of the whole. Each… — Susan Meiselas
I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the… — Andrew McMahon
Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. — Koo Stark
Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it… — Sydney J. Harris
Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem — Herman Cain
I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out… — Mary Lou Williams
I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to… — Jeff Daniels
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no… — Peter Lynch
I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. — Anita Baker
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. — Thomas Perry
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the… — Adriaan Kortlandt
You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff. — Adam Garcia
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock… — Mark Twain
There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall. — Joseph Curiale
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. — Peter Senge
Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing… — Jerry Vlasak
Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs — John Motson
Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on… — Todd Rundgren
Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently… — Victor J. Stenger

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