He picked some unwise words. Saying, “I’ll enjoy killing you for my lord”, is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.
You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure.
He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.
I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.
I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.
It Might As Well Be Spring. . . I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.
Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.
Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
Today if I'm a cricketer it is because of Sachin Tendulkar. Else, I would never have picked up a bat. He's the reason behind me playing cricket
If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the few that were meant for me. Not any destination picked at random; I had to head for those that summoned me with a passion, for they were the ones that gave meaning to my life. I had to ignore the warnings of those who would tell me why I couldn't do what I wanted to do.
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.
Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain.