Pick Quotes

You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.

It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

I'm usually done with work around 11am, so I have time before I pick the kids up from school.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.

We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.