#picking

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#carve #had #i #journalism #little

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#call #christian #easier #focus #god

I've never been much into picking things apart. ↗

— Meg White

#been #i #into #much #never

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon. ↗

— Corey Haim

#book #directing #down #feelings #get

The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#developed #ear #ears #eric #eric clapton

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#apartment #bench #five #get #half

I'm bad at picking heroes. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#heroes #i #picking

I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#feel #hands #i #i feel #i feel like

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice. ↗

— Bob Corker

#ice #picking #started #trash #up

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ↗