Quotes About Selection

Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag—and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement.

Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?

Something pink? Something with extra Vitamin B? Vitamin B12? B13? Just the number of things with different types of Vitamin B in them was an embarrassment of choice itself. There were powders as well as oils, tubes of gel, even packets of some kind of pungent -smelling seed that was meant to be good for some obscure part of you in some arcane way.

Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i— "Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i— "Don't pick it up, pick it up, pick i—

Discharge, Shinjuku Thief, and Fleshcrawl before finally selecting Lust-mord. The dislocated, eldritch sounds of "Heresy, Part I

It is curious to look back over life, over all the varying incidents and scenes - such a multitude of odds and ends. Out of them all what has mattered? What lies behind the selection that memory has made? What makes us choose the things that we have remembered? It is as though one went to a great trunk full of junk in an attic and plunged one's hands into it and said, 'I will have this - and this - and this.

Mr Goby turned over another leaf of his notebook and selected his confidante: he chose an electric radiator...

We're very catholic in our tastes," said Mrs. Allerton. "You drink wine always; Tim drinks whisky and soda, and I try all the different brands of mineral water in turn.

an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

La adaptabilidad es la clave del más apto, y la extinción de una especie representa la evolución de otra.

It seems natural to define the world around what is sought after, but geopolitics can also be considered in terms of what is not wanted.

When deciding what shows to attend, I always choose collections that I can see myself wearing and that go with my own personal style.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

A personnel guy always wants to get his pick right. We live that every year. We want to make sure the pick is right.

I see the world from the perspective of a 5'8" person, not someone who is 6'4". so naturally, I'm going to choose certain lens heights over and again... Sometimes nature makes choices for you.

You can scroll through my iTunes and I've got everything. I've got Ace Hood, Alt-J, Annie Lennox, Arctic Monkeys, Beanie Sigel, the Beatles, Beth Hart, Big Sean, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Chief Keef, Coldplay, the Flaming Lips, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, OutKast, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, the Smiths, and the list goes on from there.

In my opinion, there's not really a 'worst' flower; however, you do have to do some research based on the people whose space will hold the flowers. For instance, there are some flowers that are poisonous to have around kids or pets.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

When a guy comes unofficially, then he, to me, is sending you a message that, 'You know what? Hey, I'm interested in Clemson.' Now, he may hate it when he gets here. But at least he came on his own. That's just my personal philosophy.

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.

I like to choose the people I take photographs of, but when you make your living off it, you've got to take everybody.