Picks Quotes
175 quotes by 168 authors
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
— Marc Chagall
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We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
— Leonard Cohen
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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is…
— Margaret Mead
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He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.
— Mae West
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The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In…
— Michael Ayrton
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God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.
— Dawson Trotman
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Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.
— Alan Shearer
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The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is…
— Charles Macklin
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The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.
— Robert Breault
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God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been
— Douglas Wilson
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Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back…
— Hideaki Anno
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The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the…
— Paul Caponigro
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Camera lies all the time. It’s all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you… the moment…
— Richard Avedon
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
— Bridget Riley
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I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?'
— Glenn Beck
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FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration,…
— Napoleon Hill
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I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he…
— Desmond Tutu
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