Picks Quotes - Page 5

• in McAnally's pub and grill, there aren't any service people. According to Mac, if you can't get up and walk over to pick up your own order, you don't need to be there at all.

  Jim Butcher

  Order, People, Needs

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.6, Penguin

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• Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

  Jay Feaster

  League, Hey, Velocity

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• This pick is going to be one where people look back and say that was the right guy.

  Bryan Colangelo

  People, Guy, Looks

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• When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Moments, That Moment

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• Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

  Tim Lebbon

  Moving, Fate, Sacrifice

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated

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• When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.

  Frederik Pohl

  Life, Thinking, People

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• I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

  Joey Comeau

  Numbers, Choices, Esp

  "Overqualified". Book by Joey Comeau, 2009.

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• Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

  Paul Krassner

  Racism, Isms, Sexism

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

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• Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.

  Alan Moore

  War, Doors, Differences

  "Correspondence: From Hell". Alan Moore and Dave Sim, "Cerebus" #220 (comic book series by Dave Sim), July 1, 1997.

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• To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

  Starhawk

  Integrity, Beer, Unjust Society

  Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.69, Beacon Press

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• While accessory items and embedded features help minimize driver distraction, nothing replaces simple common-sense when using a cell phone in the car. Pull over to the side of the road to dial manually, know the features and functions of your phone before you drive and allow voice mail to pick up your calls if you are driving - these are all simple and commonsensical steps we can all take to minimize distraction from in-car cell phone use.

  Gary Shapiro

  Simple, Voice, Phones

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• The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Children, War, Party

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, January 23, 2009.

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• No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart, nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.

  Bert McCracken

  Song, Mean, People

  "Inside Entertainment" by Jonathon Moran, Lawrie Masterson, and Brett Debritz, Sunday Mail, May 13, 2007.

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• Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.

  Jack McDevitt

  Wine, Imagination, Demon

  "Omega". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2003.

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• If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.

  Bruce Parry

  Beach, Hate, Philosophy

  "My hols: Bruce Parry". Times Online UK, September 16, 2007.

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• Researchers have found that people oblivious to the haunting phenomena when they first enter the haunted site are likely to pick up something in the same spots in the house as the primary witnesses who reported the haunting. This indicates that something actually exists in the environment at those spots on some level, physical or psychic.

  Loyd Auerbach

  Psychics, People, House

  Loyd Auerbach (2010). “Ghost Hunting: How to Investigate the Paranormal”, p.34, Ronin Publishing

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• The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.

  Hal Rothman

  Las Vegas, Self, Cities

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• A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

  Roja Dove

  Memories, Cat, Keys

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• Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

  Michael Jackson

  Drinking, Beer, Ice

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• President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

  Conan O'Brien

  Israel, Filled Out, Iran

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• Time magazine announced its person of the year. It's health workers who treat Ebola. That's a person of the year. Time magazine told the health workers, 'No need to pick up your award, we'll mail it to you.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Ebola, Years, Awards

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• President Obama and his wife are going to Kenya. Donald Trump said, 'While you're there, pick up your birth certificate.'

  David Letterman

  Wife, President, Kenya

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• Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

  Jason Kilar

  Adversity, Choices, Risk

  Jason Kilar's Commencement Address at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, www.c-span.org. May 10, 2015.

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• We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.

  Chris Gardner

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  "Chris Gardner | Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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