Picking Quotes - page 13

I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it. (James Clavell)
I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small. View quote
Peter Ackroyd
Well anyone can make a 'weird' [chord] progression by randomly picking triads. View quote
Andrew Sega
Jack Layton believed so much in the power of democracy and of this Parliament. I invite all honourable members in this House to join me in picking up this torch and making this an institution in which Canadians can be proud. View quote
Nycole Turmel
I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen. View quote
Jack Dorsey
I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon. View quote
Corey Haim
Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him. View quote
Mitch McConnell
An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha. View quote
Eugene Fama
Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down. View quote
Mitch Albom
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time. View quote
Emma Watson
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 - and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vice versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you. (Doris Lessing)
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. 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. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
I am one who leaves the table like a man, without putting back the chair or picking up the plate. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so hard, when I start picking a bit softer my tone changes completely, and that's really useful sometimes for creating a more laid-back feel. View quote
Angus Young
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. View quote
Dolores Huerta
It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games. View quote
Warren Buffett
In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them. View quote
Kelly Clarkson
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis. View quote
Brené Brown
I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it. View quote
Andrej Pejic
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. (Bill Gates)
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. View quote
Bill Gates
I've never been much into picking things apart. View quote
Meg White
You send me to Washington to represent you in the senate. But you do not send me there because you are interested in grave questions of national or international policy. When I come back to Arizona, you never ask me any questions about such policies; instead you ask me: "What about my pension?” or "What about that job for my son?” I am not in Washington as a statesman. I am there as a very well paid messenger boy doing your errands. My chief occupation is going around with a forked stick picking up little fragments of patronage for my constituents. View quote
Henry Fountain Ashurst
It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with. View quote
Busta Rhymes