Quotes About Picking

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

When you make timeless music - and I like to think that's what I'm doing - the fun part is picking the songs. You can clip and flop and mix and match, and when the record is timeless and it feels good, you know it's going to have the same appeal whether you put it out now or 10 years from now. That's what I'm about.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

MONCEAU: In my opinion you're hysterical. After all, they were picking up Jews in Germany for years before the war, they've been doing it in Paris since they came in—are you telling me all those people are dead? Is that really conceivable to you? War is war, but you still have to keep a certain sense of proportion. I mean Germans are still people.

All olives ripen green, then change to rose, shades of purple, and black. According to region, this process takes about four months and, once the fruits are ripe, they can be picked at any stage.

It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.

I'm not one of those reporters who relishes picking through people's privacy. It's probably the reason I'm a second-rate journalist.

There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless;

I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.

The wind was picking up, and the Scarecrow shivered.

The only criterion that matters in picking members for committee vacancies is their length of service in Congress. Congress calls it the seniority system. I call it the senility system.

That's what I love about Nashville and the music community - seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

I'm the oldest of four, I have three siblings, and I think I kind of grew up aggravating and picking at them.

Occasionally, fans will ask me to go on their shoulders, and we'll do a sort of Hodor and Bran thing. That's always good fun. But one guy did it, and he really wasn't an expert at picking people up, and I was kind of going sideways on his back holding onto his neck, and then I sort of fell off. But that was fun.

all these farm boys are asking her out. To go pick apples or something. How symbolic." "I'm sure the apples they're picking are apples. It's not symbol season.

Trouble fell like rain from the heavens, and we just couldn't get enough of it. We went around picking up the stuff and cramming our pockets full of it. Even now I can't figure out why we persisted in doing that. Maybe we mistook it for something else.

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.

We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet.

It may sound as if I'm cherry-picking

you can pick what you want from the definition, like picking flowers from a garden

At least if I was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.