Top 80 Picks Quotes

My mother is caring and selfless, and really looks after me. When I’m touring, she still picks me up from the airport, no matter what time it is.

Trump’s cabinet picks seem designed to unwind government itself, leaving the average citizen completely exposed and vulnerable to full exploitation by corporate interests.

I never know which camera is on me when I’m dancing and the director picks the shot he likes but it usually isn’t the best shot for showing the steps I want the audience to see.

When you have something special, it’s like everybody picks apart words. They’ll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that’s special and trash it.

There are a ton of A-list stars I’d love to dress – fashionistas like Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson. Also, Cate Blanchett would be fun and fabulous. My picks vary by the day and how I’m feeling. But, as a new, young designer, I’m open to working with everyone!

Let’s restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation’s millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change.

When you talk about gambling and the euphoria that comes with it, making winning picks is what excites you.

When I was 14 or 15, I was dead-set on becoming a rock star – the same as anybody who picks up a guitar at that age.

I’ve been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

Whoever picks me up, I’m going to try and play my best for, to be the best player on the field at any given time.

I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I’m going to be excited to play for that team, and I can’t wait to see myself in ‘Madden’ on that team.

I believe life is an ‘experience ball.’ You throw it at someone, it picks up their response… it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

That’s called a microphone. It’s a big sausage that picks up everything you say – and you’re starting early.

I was in a unique position to predict the outcome of NBA games. Some of my picks included games I had been assigned to referee.

It doesn’t occur to me that I don’t drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, ‘Oh, that’s what movie stars are driving. I guess I’m not a movie star.’

One-on-one is different than actually going through picks, hitting the floor, playing 5-on-5, getting back in transition, making quick moves without thinking about it.

Donald Trump has made outstanding picks for his Cabinet.

We live in a culture that celebrates determination and hard work, but understand, these are the qualities that keep you in the game after most everybody else has left – or until somebody bigger and stronger picks you up and hurls you back out to sea.

A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

Sometimes, obviously it’s an incentive to tank if you have the opportunity to get those high draft picks.

Mahesh usually picks the places we go to for our vacations. He has an uncanny sense of where to go, and we just follow him happily. He is the happiest when he can roam the streets with his children, something that he can’t do in Hyderabad.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

When Tom Morello picks up the guitar, I’m sure what he sees is totally different from what I do, but I love the way he plays.

There aren’t a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

All I can really control is how I prepare and get ready for whatever team picks me.

‘Borne,’ in a weird way, even though it’s a totally different universe, picks up where the ‘Southern Reach Trilogy’ leaves off, because it’s post-apocalyptic.

It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don’t they call somebody in their area? Don’t they know about that?

When people pick the best drivers of all time, nobody ever picks Lee Trevino. But when he played, like at Tanglewood at the ’74 PGA, he missed one fairway in 72 holes.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

You look at my career, everywhere I went – Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly – they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

The public always picks quality.

The quarterback gets plenty of protection in the pocket, and he picks up protection out of the pocket; he’s got protection down the field on his slides.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.

I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it’s like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.

I went through a period in my life where I didn’t have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t play guitar.

I’ve heard a lot about what second-round picks usually do – whether it’s D-League or whether it’s not playing – but for me, I have high expectations of myself regardless of where I’m picked.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars – and I designed picks.

You don’t look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it’s irrelevant in any situation – I don’t care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

For the Broncos, they’re kind of in a rebuilding stage with a lot of young guys and here I am, 10 years in the league, ready to be a free agent. I think it was best for the Broncos to trade me for the draft picks and try to build.

If the owner goes inside a team and picks one player to play, I can no longer be the manager. Decisions must be made by the manager.

When you’re younger, everyone wants to be a point guard. Everyone wants to shoot fadeaway jump shots all day. Nobody wants to be a big man. Nobody wants to go stand on the block and just set picks.

I have been using small teardrop jazz picks since I was, like, 14.

We were always setting picks and screens and looking for an open shot.

Sometimes in a restaurant you’ll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something… a little fan is always a little bit nice.

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn’t yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, ‘Boring.’ Or, ‘I’m not ready for this.’ Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

When I work with Dre, he usually does more than 100 records and then picks his favorites.

In wrestling, you’ve got to be an athlete. You can’t just be a body builder; you can’t just be this big strong guy who picks people up and throws them around. For longevity in the business, you got to keep your body fit and together.

They say it’s all fake, but there’s nothing fake when a guy picks you up and slams you down or throws you out of the ring onto a concrete floor. They say, ‘Yeah, but you know how to land.’ Well, you try landing on a concrete floor.

I’m one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I’m watching.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they’re from.

I have a P.O. Box that I get about 50 letters a day that my mom picks up, and a lot of weird gifts I like to show on my videos.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it’s because they’re not happy doing what they’re doing.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, ‘Chicks with Picks,’ I hated it. It’s not a genre, it’s a gender.

We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you’re really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you’re saying.