Picks Quotes - Page 25

• Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Hero, Today, Bows

  Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.126, NYU Press

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• in my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Learning, Growth, Lessons

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• There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Certain, Feels

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Pockets, Want

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• For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Character, Incidents

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

  Hannah More

  Men, Class, Discrimination

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.268

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• Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
  Except the ill of being poor
  Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
  Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
  Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
  To catch all feet except their own,
  Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
  As easily as pick a pocket.

  Charles Churchill

  Art, Feet, Hens

  Charles Churchill, “The Ghost - Book I”

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• I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Source: saseye.com

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• I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.

  Hilary Swank

  Opportunity, Phones, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

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• A kid that picks up a record, he doesn't need to know anything other than the music and have it in his or her headphones. They're getting ideas directly, it's like someone whispering in their ear. That's such a personal way to receive information.

  Conor Oberst

  Kids, Ideas, Needs

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

  Laurence Sterne

  Fire, Ignorant, Matter

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• If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.

  Willem de Kooning

  Thinking, Noses, Today

  Barbara Hess, Willem De Kooning (2004). “Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997: Content as a Glimpse”, p.33, Taschen

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• I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Thinking, Two, Answers

  Donald Rumsfeld, United States. Dept. of Defense. Historical Office (2001). “Public statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Marriage, Daughter, Mother

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• The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

  Susan Powter

  Glasses, Rocks, People

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• All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Reality, Agreement, Wild Imagination

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• A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

  Gene Tierney

  Thinking, Rose, Careless

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• You are lucky in life if you have the right heroes. I advise all of you, to the extent you can, to pick out a few heroes

  Warren Buffett

  Hero, Lucky, Advise

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• I’ve often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being “half-pregnant.” You either are or you aren’t. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science – or you don’t. Folks this isn’t a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.

  John F. Kerry

  Luxury, Issues, Climate

  John F. Kerry's Speech at the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, archive.boston.com. December 16, 2009.

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• We pick our own sorrows out of the joys of other men, and from their sorrows likewise we derive our joys.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

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• I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Believe, Moving, Air

  Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

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• Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there. I expect the whole movie colony to pick up its tents one night and go back to whatever fairyland they came from.

  Pamela Moore

  Morning, Night, Hollywood

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• No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.'

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Thinking, Winning, Trying

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• I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.  If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.  I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.  It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.  A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.  Their eyes need to be dazzled.  The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

  Robert Evans

  Moving, Eye, Important

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