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Letter "P" » picking
«Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.»
Author: Adriaan Kortlandt
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
chimpanzee, chimpanzees, colors, forest, gaze, my supper, particularly, pawpaw, picking, pickings, retire, retires, sunset, sunsets, supper, suppers
«I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.»
Author: Bishop Desmond Tutu
(Novelist, Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
considers, crumb, crumbs, menu, menus, picking, pickings, picking up, table, Table of, thrown
«I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.»
«If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.»
«Picking our first victim seemed as right as going to church on Sunday.»
Author: Joseph Kallinger
| Keywords:
picking
«May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell»
Author: Old Irish toast
| About:
Devil
| Keywords:
apples, backbone, Garden of, In the Garden, ladder, picking, pickings, The Garden
«The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
| Keywords:
arguing, inventing, making love, murdered, picking, picking up, The Streets
«If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.»
«Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.»
Author: Alvin Toffler
(Author)
| Keywords:
correction, doubtless, editor, Letter of, nit, nits, picking, provoked
«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»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
perspire, perspiring, picking, pickings, picking up, prejudices
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