Pickups Quotes

• Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

  Tim Allen

  Funny, Witty, Dating

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• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Memorable, Guitar

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• Want to come back to the morgue with me after lunch? (Tate) I shudder at the thought of the pickup line you must have used the night you met LaShonda. Come with me, baby, and see my collection of stiffs. (Simone)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Night, Lunch

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.7, Macmillan

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• You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.

  John Grisham

  War, Men, Ready

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2016

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• I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Dad, Men, Interesting

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Bloodfever”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Brake

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• I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

  Craig Johnson

  Light, Truck, Ifs

  Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.336, Penguin

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• I like the fact that most of the cars I see are Detroit-made automobiles. I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck. Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually.

  Mitt Romney

  Couple, Three, Cadillacs

  "Romney Makes Economic Pitch In Detroit". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 24, 2012.

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• I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.

  Mike Greenwell

  Funny, Stupid, Wife

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• I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

  Howard Dean

  Guy, Flags, Want

  "Dems battle over Confederate flag". Des Moines Register Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 2, 2003.

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• I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Music, Guitar, Bars

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• I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Kids, Guitar

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• I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. And I'm going to bring us together. Because you know what? You know what? White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools too.

  Howard Dean

  School, Kids, Race

  "Southern Exposure". www.motherjones.com. November 10, 2003.

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• How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

  Edward Abbey

  Girl, Rain, Utah

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• I’m not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don’t have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

  Steve Carell

  Self Confidence, Flirting, Lines

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. July 29, 2011.

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• I reached a point towards the end on the old heart where I had trouble getting out of a chair. All I wanted to do was get out of bed in the morning and walk to my office and sit back down in the chair. Now I throw 50 pound bags of horse feed in the back of my pickup truck and I don't even think about it. I'm back doing those things.

  Dick Cheney

  Morning, Horse, Heart

  "Exclusive: Dick Cheney opens up about heart disease battle in new book". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Teacher, Retirement, Work

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• I'm really annoyed by the wave of country music that's just a list of stuff. It almost sounds like L.A. people writing country music, because it's just a list of stuff: 'My pickup truck and my cowboy boots and my Levi's jeans and my girlfriend with the short shorts.' It's so boring!

  Kathleen Hanna

  Country, Girlfriend, Writing

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• Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

  Hugh Hefner

  Names, Lines, Said

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• First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, Moving, Two

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• You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Lines, Rooms, Needs

  FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Mar 02, 2012

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• My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

  Nick Offerman

  Uncles, Illinois, Guy

  "Our Valentine Gift to You". Interview with Kera Bolonik, nymag.com. February 7, 2010.

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• Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Mean, Giving, Troops

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• I don't know a lot of show runners. I mean I met a lot of them in picket lines. I'm not part of a, like, secret society or pickup basketball game. As far as I'm concerned, pick-up basketball games are secret societies. They confuse me. I've never been a networker or I've never been very social.

  Joss Whedon

  Basketball, Mean, Games

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I havent even been drinking, but, at all, but, you know, being a man, Ive got to say that weve got this guy in the White House who thinks he is a man, you know, who projects himself as a man because he has a certain masculinity, and he's a good old boy, and he used to drink, and he knows how to shoot a gun and how to drive a pickup truck, etcetera like that. Thats not the definition of a man, God Dammit!

  Ed Harris

  Drinking, Gun, Boys

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