#picked

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent. ↗

— Barry White

#came #cat #chops #cops #detectives

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates. ↗

— Meg White

#always #ballot #candidates #choice #dad

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

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

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#also #forgotten #gods #hopefully #i

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee. ↗

— David Spade

#i #make #money #parker #picked

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#backstage #brain #casino #certain #certain things

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school. ↗

— Alton Brown

#culinary #culinary school #daughter #decided #every

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out. ↗

— Larry David

#good #had #homeless #i #out