I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool. There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.
Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something. '
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.
You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of -pick a number- 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds.
The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.
Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.
Kerry has already begun his search for a running mate. They say that because John Edwards still has $50 million in campaign money, Kerry might pick him. Pick him? Hey, for $50 million, Kerry will marry him.
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.
Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn’t even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.
. . . a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice of a small pond or against a windowpane. Watercolour perfectly expresses the free side of my nature.
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion. . . It's what you make of it once you've learned what to accept and ignore based on what best suits you.
Would you pick me? I am so much my own agent, it would be - its inconceivable.
Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.