#picked

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#down #i #intend #laid #laughter

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#friends #gave #i #insecure #kid

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

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#beyond #child #children #come #grandmother

By now everyone knows that I picked Kentucky, and I am definitely happy with my decision and that it's all finally over. ↗

— Nerlens Noel

#decision #definitely #everyone #finally #happy

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amiable #boat #century #english #every

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#around #bad #bad rap #being #feel

I was totally picked on, but look at me now! I was definitely picked on by boys and girls. I was really lanky and skinny and the boys would say, 'Turn sideways and stick out your tongue, you look like a zipper.' ↗

— Krysten Ritter

#definitely #i #like #look #me

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#caught #hang #hunter #ideas #long

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#art #association #college #doing #exhibition