Top 1156 Picking Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
As a journalist, I've been a professional watcher, picking up the body language and verbal tics that make us individuals and interesting to others.
[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
I haven't left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.
Picking on people is not my sort of humour, but I think there's quite a lot of it around. We're slowly turning into a nation of bullies; manners have gone out of the window.
I sucked. It was my first time picking up a basketball. I watched it on TV, but I never knew what to really do with it. I mean, I needed help with everything.
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life - who's picking up who and who's cooking dinner.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'
Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.
For me, it's not so much about picking the right position; it's about the team.
I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences.
I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.
I hate picking a bone with Paul Ryan; he's a friend of mine, but I think he needs to walk and chew gum at the same time.
My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don't care if you're picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.
Rekindling hope, engaging in inner work, and venturing into the world amount to a complete plan for picking yourself up when you're down.
If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.
Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
People seem to be having these awesome sex lives and I'm just trying to find a life partner to go apple picking with. What's wrong with me?
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.
I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.
It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.
Four-men aren't used to picking up guys pushing the ball in transition. Let alone, somebody getting the rebound and just busting.
Oftentimes, actors don't have the luxury of picking their part. You go from one project to the next, and you hope that you find one that fits you and that you're suited for, and then they see that you're fit for it.
When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.
I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.
Maybe at the end of the day, instead of a neighbor picking you up, a robot picks you up.
At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.
When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.
When I was 12, there was a kid a couple of grades older than me who was picking on my sisters. No matter how big they were, I would defend them.
I'm not in a rush to do anything. And I wouldn't say I pick and choose. When it comes to producers picking people for roles I don't think it's between me and Tom Cruise, do you know what I mean?
In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell.
I love going into junk shops, picking up something that looks like it's got a bit of history to it, then sanding it down and reviving it.
Personal mastery teaches us to choose. Choosing is a courageous act: picking the results and actions which you will make into your destiny.
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
There is an art to eavesdropping, but I think to some extent we are all guilty of picking up those little odds and ends that can be quite intriguing if you analyse them.
This is a dream that I have been dreaming to live! From watching 'Double Dare' to hosting it! I am ready for a summer of slime and nose-picking.
As a professional you're always judging each other and picking things out about whether you're better or not than those playing.
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
It's all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.
I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.
