#pluck

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ↗

#invisible #lapel #ownership #plucked #proclaim

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#fierce #first #flame #hang #heart

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#making #music #plucking #them

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brief #duration #enjoyed #flower #found

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#best #flower #grow #i #i always

Everyone wants to pluck eyebrows. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. ↗

— Denise Richards

#eyebrows #i #just #like #look

Want of pluck shows want of blood. ↗

— Virgil

#pluck #shows #want

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ↗