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Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?
— William Shakespeare
I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her.
— Nimrat Kaur
The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it.
— Miyuki Miyabe
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.
— William DeVries
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
— Noam Chomsky
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.
— Craig Stone
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.
— Juliana Hatfield
The ego is a false perception of self. It's an idea, a transitory identity that we've picked up.
— Frederick Lenz
Oh, honey. You picked the wrong bear to poke.
— Codi Gary
You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'
— Christina Hendricks
He picked up the fountain pen and clicked the top on and off a few times while he listened.
— Hugh Laurie
When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.
— Tom Verlaine
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
— Maggie Stiefvater
My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
— Natalie Cole
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary
— Richard Harkness
Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.
— Ray Davies
An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
If I knew this was what I was gonna get out of playing ball, I would have picked it up years ago.
— Eve Jagger
In San Francisco my friends and I picked a decade and stuck with it. We listened to old music, drove old cars, and wore old clothes.
— Sophia Amoruso
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
— Barbara Hambly
I see. Because I'm not hideous, not a drunkard, and appear to bathe regularly, you picked me. How you flatter me.
— Chris Karlsen
I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.
— Leslie Feinberg
If you gathered together all the shades of blue in the world and picked the bluest, the epitome of blue, this was the color you would choose.
— Haruki Murakami
And then she walked out of my life forever. Too bad she was hitchhiking. I should have picked her up.
— Jarod Kintz
I've picked a side," she said darkly. "And everyone's on it. And that's exactly who I'm going to save.
— Dan Wells
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
— Winston Churchill
He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noahsarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah
cared. And that made him real. — Michelle Hodkin
Silence hung between them, and Maddy's heartbeat picked up. She probably should have played it cool, but why bother? She wanted him.
— Sara Humphreys
I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
— Walter Isaacson
No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world can go to hell.
— Lauren Oliver
I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.
— Stone Gossard
I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.
— Robert Stack
Everything we have is everything we love - it's basically like we picked for our homes and then just put it for sale in a store.
— Helena Christensen
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
— Whitaker Chambers
That's one of the fun things ... That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.
— Chris Cheney
Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.
— Evelyn Glennie
I picked it up 'cause the back of the box said the Kinect had "finally found its hardcore game" and I interpreted that as a challenge.
— Yahtzee Croshaw
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
— Salman Rushdie
Well ... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size.
— Kevin McDonald
My grief had become a thick scab; I picked at it from time to time, but mostly I left it alone. I didn't want to know what was underneath.
— Marshall Thornton
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
— Larry David
I swore an oath. I'm not happy to be a vampire. It's not the life I'd have picked. But it's mine now, and I'll honor that.
— Chloe Neill
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
— James Blunt
God has picked you out to pick you up.
— Joyce Meyer
He had a plan - and a bus pass with four more days left on it - so this son of a bitch had picked the wrong guy to fuck with.
— Christopher Moore
When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.
— Claire Coffee
I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.
— Lucas Grabeel
Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants,
— Jill Paton Walsh
For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree.
— J.D. Salinger
He picked some unwise words. Saying, "I'll enjoy killing you for my lord", is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
— Charlaine Harris
Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over.
— Nerlens Noel
Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory.
— Louie Giglio
I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.And of course I was right. — Jack Kerouac
I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.
— George W. Bush
The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
— Andrey Illarionov
I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
— Mark Ruffalo
I love you, Catwalk. I love every part of you. All of you. And I'll be there every time you need to be picked up. You hear me?
— Megan Erickson
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
— Robert Breault
A wise woman indiscriminately picked up all the tools others left lying around.
— Karen Marie Moning
Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.
— Edward Carpenter
Since Hetty wasn't even here yet, I excused myself to go to the bathroom where I promptly picked my kindle up again. Don't judge.
— Penelope Ward
The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.
— S.M. Jonas
If I'd never have picked up the first person, I'd never have picked up the 42,000 in Calcutta.
— Mother Teresa
trouble. After all, you have just picked up a book on the fiscal crisis by a certified
— David M. Walker
I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.
— George R R Martin
Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Stop thinking of yourself as the picked-on girl from the Third and act like the person you are now. Today.
— Sara Ella
