(2451 quotes found)
“If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.”
Willem de Kooning
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
Jonathan Kozol
“[David Branch] brought a real sense of professionalism to a minor hockey team. He obviously has picked up a lot as commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League, and he brought that to our team. He made us accountable.”
Jay Harrison
“I see rows of caskets lining up in front of this TV set... and I see actual loved ones picking up the hands of the dead and letting them touch the screen and people are getting raised.”
Benny Hinn
“Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.”
Patrick Dougherty
“We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.”
Jesse Jackson
“I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.”
Andy Rooney
“I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.”
Wilfrid Sheed
“Look, pick it up, open it anywhere and read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar.”
Diana Gabaldon
“One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat.”
Robert Stone
