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You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman? It's plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.
— Geri Jewell
No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
— Barbara Tuchman
Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I felt like a child plucking daisy petals: I trust him, I trust him not, I trust him, I trust him not.
— Karen Marie Moning
Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.
— Beverly Cleary
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
— Jean-Baptiste Colbert
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I was afraid of him. He was outplaying me, plucking all of my weapons from my fingers and making me feel like a toothless tiger.
— Tarryn Fisher
My name is Marillion," the singer said, plucking a string on his woodharp. "Doubtless you've heard me play somewhere?
— George R R Martin
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
— Joseph Conrad
You don't gather the beauty of a flower by plucking her petals.
— Gautama Buddha
Since when did you start plucking books off the children's shelf, Leona?
— Elizabeth Lynn Casey
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
— Frederic C. Howe
There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
— Katy Lederer
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
— Adam Jones
-[ ... ]what did the bearded queen have to say?
-Her Grace can provide no help.
-Too busy plucking out her chin hairs, is she? — George R R Martin
-Her Grace can provide no help.
-Too busy plucking out her chin hairs, is she? — George R R Martin
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out of my hair.
— Norman Rush
A bird in the hand is worth plucking, frying, and sticking between two bits of bread.
— Edward Burns
To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.
— Fennel Hudson
If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
— Rita Ora
Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The best way to love a woman is to let her bloom like a flower so that you can enjoy her beauty without plucking her petals.
— Debasish Mridha
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Here's the new art of the twenty-first century: the art of curating, the art of plucking all the good stuff from a superabundance of crap.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
— Ross Perot
Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
— Emily Dickinson