Picks Quotes

175 quotes by 168 authors

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
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local… — John Culberson
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted — Doc Rivers
Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if… — Ray Lewis
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights. — N. T. Wright
I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them.… — Joe Strummer
Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it. — GG Allin
Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or… — Cal Ripken, Jr.
Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed. — Wilder Penfield
It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off. — Bob Kersee
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. — Peter Lynch
One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them. — Dion Fortune
I donâ€™t want long hair, I donâ€™t want short hair, I donâ€™t want hair at all, and I donâ€™t want to be a girl or… — Sherman Alexie
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me — Smokey Robinson
It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun… — Estella Warren
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files… — Theodore Zeldin
A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you… — Elizabeth Hay
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it… — John Ciardi

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