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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.


James Thomas Fields


#barn #blessing #crown #descend #door

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.


Slash


#aspirations #doing #down #end #guitar

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.


Channing Tatum


#easily #energy #enrolled #every #handle

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.


Sarah Zettel


#capable #create #did #earth #either

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.


Chuck Palahniuk


#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I bought a Kindle. I have like 15 books on this one little gizmo. But when I came home, the first night I picked up the book that was on my nightstand and I went right back to that.


Lisa See


#big #book #books #bought #cambodia

Before the agent could get the words out, Danny picked the man up off his seat by his lapels and pushed him against the upper door frame of his car... He didn't appear lesser even when looking up into the man's face as he again spoke, this time through gritted teeth only slightly above a whisper. "This is no longer a warning. It's a promise.


Judith-Victoria Douglas


#gritted-teeth #picked-up #promise #pushed #warning

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.


Simon Armitage


#begin #between #came #day #downstairs

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.


Richard Bach


#behold #changed #fear #i #life

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.


Matthew Ashford


#i #i tried #picked #racket #tennis