Picking Quotes

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. (Audrey Hepburn)
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. View quote
Desmond Tutu
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. View quote
Alton Brown
It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. View quote
Jennifer Garner
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. View quote
Pete Seeger
That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste. View quote
John Green (author)
It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. View quote
Sam Levenson
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. View quote
Oscar Robertson
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. View quote
Keith Richards
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. View quote
Alan Greenspan
I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton. (Willie Nelson)
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. View quote
Amy Tan
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint. View quote
Emo Philips
Hey listen - I've proved a lot of things. That's how I pay my rent. Theories and little observations. A puckish remark now and then. Occasional maxims. It beats picking olives, but let's not get carried away. View quote
Woody Allen
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. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature. View quote
Loreena McKennitt
It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
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. (Tony Abbott)
There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference- one that looks like it would be fun- and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this- just about everywhere in the company. View quote
Jack Welch
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. View quote
E. B. White
It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense. View quote
Richard Feynman
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours. View quote
Studs Terkel