We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.
Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.
Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.
The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.
If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.
My daughters been picked up so many times she's starting to grow handles
I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off.
Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).
Nothing's ever entirely new. It's more a matter of what gets picked up from the past at each time.
My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.
I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.