Quotes about Picking

My biggest 'don't' from the past? Picking my face! Votes: 3

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating. Votes: 3

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out. Votes: 3

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Votes: 3

Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody. Votes: 3

Picking an assistant coach, the first thing I was interested in was the man's character. Votes: 3

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head. Votes: 3

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose. Votes: 3

Picking your favourite look is like picking your favourite child! I get so emotionally attached to each one. Votes: 3

Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price? Votes: 3

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all. Votes: 3

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories. Votes: 3

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.... Votes: 3

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book. Votes: 3

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders. Votes: 3

Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience. Votes: 3

I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette. Votes: 3

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives. Votes: 3

Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on. Votes: 3

Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption. If not in a legal sense, certainly in a moral sense Votes: 3

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice. Votes: 3

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 how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life. Votes: 3

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge. Votes: 3

He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries. Votes: 3

The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time, at the perfection of nature where leaves were most beautiful at the very end of their lives. Votes: 3

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best. Votes: 1

You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow. Votes: 1

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. Votes: 1

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. Votes: 1

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. Votes: 1

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. Votes: 1

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. Votes: 1

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. Votes: 1

Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It's so fun. Votes: 1

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa. Votes: 1

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. Votes: 1

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well. Votes: 1

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women. Votes: 1

House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one. Votes: 1

I will respect the limits of my experience but that won't stop me from trying to lead by example of my work. Being a good teammate and picking them up on and off the field is a simple goal of mine. Votes: 1

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them. Votes: 1

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them. Votes: 1

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter. Votes: 1

As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go. Votes: 1

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. Votes: 1

I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand. Votes: 1

Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow. Votes: 1

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day. Votes: 1

I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back. Votes: 1

My family is Chilean, and I was born there. By the time I was four, we were living in San Antonio, Texas, and I just remember picking a blue bonnet and getting yelled at by some guy with a sheriff hat and a badge. I was traumatized. He told me it was the state flower, and I wasn't supposed to be messin' with it. Votes: 1

Life's picking up speed. Votes: 0

Be happy without picking flaws. Votes: 0

I'm good at picking friends. Votes: 0

I'm bad at picking heroes. Votes: 0

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself. Votes: 0

We're picking on people we can beat. Votes: 0

I don't do well at picking first single. Votes: 0

I don't think you'll ever get enough picking. Votes: 0

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. Votes: 0

It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee. Votes: 0

Always avoid picking up hitch-hikers who are wearing a mask. Votes: 0

More important than your skills is picking the right business. Votes: 0

I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl. Votes: 0

Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs Votes: 0

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies. Votes: 0

You shouldn't trust the judgments of stock brokers picking individual stocks. Votes: 0

The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. Votes: 0

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice. Votes: 0

Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it Votes: 0

It's just a favorite language to me, that country finger-picking guitar style. Votes: 0

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens. Votes: 0

Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous. Votes: 0

Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces. Votes: 0

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing. Votes: 0

I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint. Votes: 0

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal. Votes: 0

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. Votes: 0

That's very different, picking up the impulse instead of picking up the cue. Votes: 0

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. Votes: 0

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. Votes: 0

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. Votes: 0

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down. Votes: 0

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people. Votes: 0

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero. Votes: 0

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns. Votes: 0

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha. Votes: 0

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again. Votes: 0

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. Votes: 0

The person that always wins, that`s the other thing. The monkey picking stocks always wins. Votes: 0

All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. Votes: 0

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime. Votes: 0

If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces. Votes: 0

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence. Votes: 0

My all-time favorite interception was picking off Peyton Manning back in 2007, the one-hander down the sideline. Votes: 0

One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes. Votes: 0

Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband. Votes: 0

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. Votes: 0

I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down. Votes: 0

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. Votes: 0

Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save. Votes: 0

I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from passing couturiers. Votes: 0

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale. Votes: 0

It turns out kids today still learn that four-chord progression when they're just picking up the guitar. Votes: 0

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector. Votes: 0

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily. Votes: 0

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips. Votes: 0

Personally, when I'm picking friends, I like the ones who don't make me cry myself to sleep. Votes: 0

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge Votes: 0

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes. Votes: 0

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up. Votes: 0

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city. Votes: 0

Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently. Votes: 0

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. Votes: 0

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with. Votes: 0

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me." Votes: 0

For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired. Votes: 0

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts. Votes: 0

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall. Votes: 0

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. Votes: 0

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one. Votes: 0

It's very important to me, who I play with and the same about picking a crew of people. Votes: 0

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious. Votes: 0

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. Votes: 0

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. Votes: 0

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband Votes: 0

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. Votes: 0

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. Votes: 0

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night. Votes: 0

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it. Votes: 0

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill; Votes: 0

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. Votes: 0

I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas. Votes: 0

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch. Votes: 0

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers. Votes: 0

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it. Votes: 0

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. Votes: 0

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article. Votes: 0

I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. Votes: 0

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village. Votes: 0

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite. Votes: 0

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension Votes: 0

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite. Votes: 0

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me. Votes: 0

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made. Votes: 0

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities. Votes: 0

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up. Votes: 0

I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate Votes: 0

If I have to be a monotheist, y'know pick one, I'm picking vodka, it goes well with everything, all occasions. Votes: 0

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff. Votes: 0

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. Votes: 0

I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying. Votes: 0

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself. Votes: 0

Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone. Votes: 0

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. Votes: 0

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. Votes: 0

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined. Votes: 0

I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.' Votes: 0

I've decided to become gay, not in a sexual way, but I am going to start picking up around the house. Votes: 0

it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return. Votes: 0

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby. Votes: 0

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. Votes: 0

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius. Votes: 0

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think. Votes: 0

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. Votes: 0

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear. Votes: 0

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date! Votes: 0

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are. Votes: 0

I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things. Votes: 0

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that. Votes: 0

Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem Votes: 0

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life. Votes: 0

Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect. Votes: 0

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. Votes: 0

It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense. Votes: 0

Maybe honesty is overvalued. What's truly priceless is picking out from a stream of falsehoods the ones you most need to hear. Votes: 0

To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone. Votes: 0

Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it. Votes: 0

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success. Votes: 0

Humans are threatened by anything different, and their response is to fight. They're bullies, picking on the weak, cowering from the strong. Votes: 0

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world. Votes: 0

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. Votes: 0

Eventually, you have to stop picking a fight with your true nature and decide to seek the joy that underlies it all. Votes: 0

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds. Votes: 0

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell. Votes: 0

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second. Votes: 0

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. Votes: 0

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head. Votes: 0

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent. Votes: 0

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments Votes: 0

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies. Votes: 0

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. Votes: 0

It's nice to think that picking uncertain paths may not necessarily alter their destination too drastically, simply the journey undertaken to reach it. Votes: 0

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best. Votes: 0

Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down. Votes: 0

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. Votes: 0

I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance training. Votes: 0

Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny. Votes: 0

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. Votes: 0

It really bothers me when a guy is controlling. Dont just say Im picking the place - ask me where I want to go! Votes: 0

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement. Votes: 0

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose? Votes: 0

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. Votes: 0

In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin. Votes: 0

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do. Votes: 0

In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell. Votes: 0

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. Votes: 0

I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since. Votes: 0

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop! Votes: 0

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case? Votes: 0

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk! Votes: 0

I'm not out there picking out every single item that we sell, and also we don't even make every single item that we sell. Votes: 0

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write. Votes: 0

I end not far from my going forth By picking the faded blue Of the last remaining aster flower To carry again to you. Votes: 0

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious. Votes: 0

In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element. Votes: 0

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. Votes: 0

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. Votes: 0

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like. Votes: 0

Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet. Votes: 0

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better. Votes: 0

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking. Votes: 0

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things. Votes: 0

Just another lonely broken hero picking up the pieces of my mind. Running out of faith and hope and reason, I'm running out of time. Votes: 0

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear. Votes: 0

South of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man," picking the locks of cars whose Votes: 0

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4." Votes: 0

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers Votes: 0

I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece. Votes: 0

I think there are always going to be things that you're going to want to do. It's about picking yourself back up and starting again. Votes: 0

I always take my time when picking out outfits at home, but I will say I can change pretty quick when I'm in a hurry. Votes: 0

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies... Votes: 0

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path. Votes: 0

[Operation] Rockingham was spinning reports and emphasizing reports that showed non-compliance (by Iraq with UN inspections) and quashing those which showed compliance. It was cherry-picking intelligence. Votes: 0

I have over 150 or 200 records recorded. We have so many EP's and LP's. It's just picking the best records to put the best possible album together. Votes: 0

The Sensex of BombayRises on MondayPeaks on TuesdayProfitbooking on WednesdayCherry picking on ThursdayCrashes on FridayAnd that is the end of Sensex of BombayTill the next Monday!! Votes: 0

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal. Votes: 0

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better. Votes: 0

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work. Votes: 0

I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it. Votes: 0

I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well. Votes: 0

I always say that when it comes to picking a single, firstly you have to go with what feels right and what your gut tells you. Votes: 0

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances. Votes: 0

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music. Votes: 0

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?' Votes: 0

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it. Votes: 0

I think I'm one of life's copers. And picking myself up and dusting myself off and starting all over again is one of my mottoes, actually. Votes: 0

We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning." -Pg.242- Votes: 0

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed. Votes: 0

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 me. Votes: 0

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 advantage. Votes: 0

I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where. Votes: 0

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves. Votes: 0

Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid. Votes: 0

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs. Votes: 0

I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. Votes: 0

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you're trying to say and express. Votes: 0

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them. Votes: 0

People shoot 2D movies and convert them and I never think they're as good. 3D is really a scientific process of laying out shots and picking rotations. Votes: 0

People seem to be having these awesome sex lives and I'm just trying to find a life partner to go apple picking with. What's wrong with me? Votes: 0

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them. Votes: 0

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying. Votes: 0

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them. Votes: 0

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture! Votes: 0

I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect. Votes: 0

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer. Votes: 0

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant. Votes: 0

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color. Votes: 0

That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong. Votes: 0

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 hell without perspiring. Votes: 0

[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up. Votes: 0

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better. Votes: 0

Ah, it's too hard to pick a favorite president. It really is. It's like picking your favorite from a box of chocolates - I love all of them. Votes: 0

Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad. Votes: 0

For people starting public radio shows, one of the things you have to do is you have to talk every single public radio station into picking you up. Votes: 0

You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they're picking on? Votes: 0

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated. Votes: 0

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me. Votes: 0

You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore. Votes: 0

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste. Votes: 0

A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path. Votes: 0

Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half. Votes: 0

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone. Votes: 0

An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!" Votes: 0

President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda. Votes: 0

I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking. Votes: 0

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing. Votes: 0

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex. Votes: 0

Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race. Votes: 0

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me. Votes: 0

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling. Votes: 0

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation. Votes: 0

If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too Votes: 0

The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry. Votes: 0

Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business. Votes: 0

I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Votes: 0

God has a way of picking a nobodyand turning their world upside down, in order to create a somebodythat will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others. Votes: 0

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. Votes: 0

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 forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. Votes: 0

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat. Votes: 0

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me. Votes: 0

My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead. Votes: 0

That's the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight. Votes: 0

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy. Votes: 0

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind. Votes: 0

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Votes: 0

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers. Votes: 0

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight. Votes: 0

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art. Votes: 0

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 cool enough for the West Village.' Votes: 0

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it. Votes: 0

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up. Votes: 0

Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms. Votes: 0

I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that. Votes: 0

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. Votes: 0

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue. Votes: 0

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 to die for the cause. Votes: 0

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated. Votes: 0

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. Votes: 0

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo. Votes: 0

I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody. Votes: 0

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him. Votes: 0

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 being a woman consists of picking up garbage. Votes: 0

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time. Votes: 0

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm. Votes: 0

Anything I say about women, I try to make sure that at least five or six friends of mine are going through a similar situation. That way I'm not picking on my wife. Votes: 0

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. Votes: 0

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I'm always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names. Votes: 0

If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation. Votes: 0

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door. Votes: 0

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't. Votes: 0

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at. Votes: 0

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit." Votes: 0

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying. Votes: 0

Commitment is different in males and females. In females it is a desire to get married and raise a family. In males it means not picking up other women while out with one's girlfriend. Votes: 0

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 to wander, for them to start picking it apart. Votes: 0

The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance. Votes: 0

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him. Votes: 0

My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind. Votes: 0

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 experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. Votes: 0

I think regular school is harder than my job. You have to deal with kids picking on you, and you wanting to look good and all this stuff. It was way too much pressure. Votes: 0

The funny thing about being creative is that, especially high school people, I kept noticing I'd always go to these certain materials. I'd always be picking up trash and picking up paper and using it. Votes: 0

Bill Clinton described himself as he's "the big dog." He's out hunting, and he found something. Some woman was emitting some, you know, come-to-me smell or whatever, and he was picking up on the scent. Votes: 0

Bill Clinton described himself as he's "the big dog." He's out hunting, and he found something. Some woman was emitting some, you know, come-to-me smell or whatever, and he was picking up on the scent. Votes: 0

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals. Votes: 0

Initially, in starting to pick the songs for the live show, it was really a matter of picking songs that I loved over the years. As far as the album goes, it happened very naturally. Votes: 0

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There's no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed. Votes: 0

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag. Votes: 0

I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite. Votes: 0

Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown! Votes: 0

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it. Votes: 0

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves! Votes: 0

But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together. Votes: 0

Gays seem to be at the bottom of the pecking order: no matter how far down the pecking order another group is, its members still feel superior to and have no problem picking on gays. Votes: 0

Choosing an agent is like picking a college. They give you a pitch, you hear what they've got to say, you hear what they're going to do for you. Ultimately it's a good gut reaction. Votes: 0

I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself. Votes: 0

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it's picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done. Votes: 0

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking. Votes: 0