#pick

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America? ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#america #animal #boy #charley #columbus

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

#best #civilized #civilized nations #could #easily

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#director #i #interesting #interesting stuff #just

Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it. ↗

— Rene Redzepi

#experience #food #forest #getting #going

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. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#get #golfer #hobby #i #into

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar. ↗

— Bob Richards

#bigger #could #done #effort #faster

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#audition #box #complete #days #did

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. ↗

— James Rollins

#birthday #book #day #days #figured

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#colleagues #fellow #i #i can #pick

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#done #enough #executive #good #good people