When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage.
I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your life, at the intersection of past and present. The memory-traffic feeds into a rotary up on your head, where it goes in circles for a while, then pretty soon imagination flows in and the traffic merges and shoots off down a thousand different streets. As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride, putting things down as they come at you. That's the real obsession. All those stories.
The type of game I play, I'm going to pick injuries and suspensions, unfortunately.
I make sure to sleep eight hours, and I'm much better about eating, because I'm not standing in front of my pantry. I go to the market and pick up little carrot nubs.
I didn't get into this to pick up a new hobby. I don't want to just be a golfer. I want to be the best.
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then. . . pick out his brains.
I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.
Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.