Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Aaron Spelling

Stay tuned! I may not be here, but my show was picked up!

Robin Hobb

I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.

Denny Hamlin

That was pretty good, we picked up three-quarters of a second from practice.

Scott Lawson

I was pretty frustrated. I kind of got down on myself, but my teammates picked me back up and told me to keep shooting.

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Will Shortz

Well, you could have picked Salem, your capital, but Scio works.

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

I wish I could have picked all of them.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

He'll have off nights. Tonight, as a team, we picked him up. We're not worried about J.J.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Natalie Cole

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.

Garrett Jones

When the winds picked up, they'd go right through you.

Don Ho

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.

Evelyn Glennie

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

We still don't know how they picked our house, but it was very scary.

Stephen Stills

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

We've picked up thousands of pieces so far, at hundreds of locations.

John Cornyn

The president picked the picker, so to speak.

Bill Plympton

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

We picked up everything we were supposed to.

We picked up a lot yards but had no points to show for it.

We picked it up in the second half. We never give up. That's the kind of team we are.

We picked it up in the second half,

We picked it up in the second and third periods, but we'll have to play better.

We picked a squad for the one-day series and we'll be sticking to it.

We picked a poor time to have probably one of the worst outings we had all season. We just didn't play well.

Suzi Quatro

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.