I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.
When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.
We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.
Fang (sarcasticaly): Go pick out a tree and I'll carve our initials in it. Max: (screams and goes in the bathroom)
Don't pick up hitchhikers!"- D. Adams
I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion. . . the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.
If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife
I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I. '
You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.
High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.
Hilary Clinton might have been a better pick than me.