Top 1200 Picked Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe.

Most of my jewellery is what I picked up in India.

I was a shy kid. I was awkward. I was picked on.

I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

I've picked up a few scars during games.

If you think too much about nudity, it can be anxiety-provoking because it lives on the internet forever. I've only taken my clothes off on that one other show, and yet, if you were to Google Image me, it would seem like I do this all the time. As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look. Obviously, being picked apart with your clothes on is slightly less terrifying than when your clothes are off.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

He's picked clean! Eaten by cats!

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

When I was 7, we moved to Manasquan, where I picked up the game of basketball.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

Getting picked gives you half that confidence, or 50 per cent of it

Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

The good thing is I picked a profession that I'm passionate about.

Brothers McMullen' would not be picked up for theatrical distribution now.

I never picked an opponent.

It's a pretty humiliating thing when you get picked last every day in gym class and then at lunchtime all the kids play sports and you get picked last. At the time I just thought, "This is awful," because it defines you as a weak person. It defines you with girls and if you're bad at sports, you get into this funny cycle where the ball never gets to you because now you're in the worst position, you're in deep right field, so you can never prove that you got better, so the cycle lasts forever.

My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.

I've been picked up by Big Cass and thrown down the ramp onto metal. Have you ever seen that before in this business? No, no, that's a mighty big fall from the top of the ramp, straight down to the bottom onto concrete. He picked me up over his head and thrown me 14 feet to the ground.

When I picked athletics, I knew I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Being memorable equals getting picked.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

My game has really picked up in the NBA.

I'm the maknae. All my clothes are picked by my stylist because I don't have an eye for fashion.

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

Hands that picked cotton can now pick the mayor.

I always wanted to do be an allrounder. I don't know why I picked keeping.

Like many others who stand out, I was picked on.

He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.

I just want to do well in every game that I'm picked to play.

I don't like to be picked on. Growing up where I did you learn to fight.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

I thought not getting picked in the first round was the end of the world.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

Newsweek recently asked American women which women they admire the most, and the answer varied, actually, depending on which political party you were from... Republican women picked Oprah as the most admired woman, followed by Sarah Palin. Democratic women said Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman, followed by Oprah Winfrey. Independents also picked Oprah Winfrey, followed by Diane Sawyer.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I picked up the guitar when I was 4, and from then, I could never be bored.

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.

I picked up the guitar at 15 because of Taylor Swift.

The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.

How come when I was a kid, I couldn't be picked on bullies like that?

I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

I picked up photography in high school.

I don't think I picked up a 'Vogue' until I was, like, 16.