Quotes about pick
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“Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him.”

Clary, pg. 40
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

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“I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Source: About his wife, Nora. Selected Letters of James Joyce. http://www.slate.com/id/2181165

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“We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.”

Dan Abnett (1965) British comic book writer, novelist

Source: Doctor Who: The Forever Trap

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“Be happy without picking flaws.”

Source: Les Misérables

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“These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain”

Janet Fitch (1955) American writer

Source: Paint it Black

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“You said I was your number-one pick."
"And you are. In our hearts. Alphabetically, though, Dusk comes before you.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant

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“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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“She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

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“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now I could drink now and then, though never often enough. Drink was the only thing that kept a man from feeling forever stunned and useless. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. God, they all had assholes and sexual organs and their mouths and their armpits. They shit and they chattered and they were dull as horse dung. The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running out of their mouths, you felt like digging in under a hill and hiding out with a tommy-gun. I would certainly never be able to be happy, to get married, I could never have children. Hell, I couldn't even get a job as a dishwasher.

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“You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: A World Without Heroes

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“Just once I want it to be easy and neat. But no, there is never a good decision. I pick what I can live with.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

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“One way to pick a future is to believe it’s inevitable.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

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“I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.”

Source: Sex and the City

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“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.”

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist

" Thoughts on Politics and Revolution: A Commentary http://books.google.com/books?id=iMIPAQAAMAAJ&q="Revolutionaries+do+not+make+revolutions+The+revolutionaries+are+those+who+know+when+power+is+lying+in+the+street+and+when+they+can+pick+it+up+Armed"".
Crises of the Republic (1969)

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“Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248
First line of the documentary film " John Muir in the New World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/" (American Masters), produced, directed, and written by Catherine Tatge.
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869

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