Pick Quotes - page 4

"Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time, you dig? But the time is arbitrary. You pick your zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide. (Thomas Pynchon)
Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test. View quote
Donald Barthelme
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. View quote
Jack Welch
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience. View quote
Tim McGraw
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight. -Adie, Wizard's First Rule. View quote
Terry Goodkind
If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic. View quote
Lana Del Rey
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. View quote
Rosa Parks
The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources. View quote
Jerry Coyne
Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone. View quote
Sarah Palin
Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites. (Justin Timberlake)
The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time. View quote
Jeremy Hardy
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. View quote
Seth Godin
I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day. View quote
Rita Dove
This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke. View quote
Mordecai Richler
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. View quote
Paul Dirac
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
If you pick something you actually enjoy doing, you have fun every day of your life. View quote
Heidi Klum
It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts. View quote
Tré Cool
I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. View quote
James Joyce
That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life. (Buck Owens)
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then-- How old is Spring, Miranda? View quote
Ogden Nash
We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken. View quote
Dan Abnett
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it. View quote
Leo Tolstoy