Pick Quotes

We have lots of roadside stands in Norfolk where you can just pick up vegetables that people have grown in their garden and put the money in a pot.

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.

I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with ’em.

I’ll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school.

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it’s not how you start the date, it’s how you finish it sir.

I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don’t pick up a book are engaged with what I’m writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I’ve done my job.

I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft.

Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace.