#picked

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#cover #covers #i #more #picked

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

#comedy #comes #deficit #dramas #expensive

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#describe #exact #feel #i #i feel

It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. ↗

— Andrew J. Bacevich

#being #going #knowing #much #our

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#give #give me #golf #good #i

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#had #i #picked #sitcom #up

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round. ↗

— David Dunn

#always #attractive #better #free #free agent

I picked up an issue of Cosmopolitan the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, 'I need to get better at interviews.' The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, 'I do that every day.' ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#article #basically #because #better #cosmopolitan

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. ↗

— Mike Myers

#come #dad #liverpool #often #out