“I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.” PeopleWorldWritingMindMadeMy OwnOne ThingFrontsFoolGoes OnPicksYeahDearLove Life Author:Ashlee Simpson
“In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.” WayMindMayMadeBookRunningReadingGoes OnPrayingPicksEuropeGreenTrackShipsBook ReadingPraying To GodWorth Reading Author:Isak Dinesen
“You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.” KnowsYearsDreamRoomsWonderfulGoes OnClothesPicksHollywoodDressingsDressing RoomsWonderful Places Author:Larry Hagman
“Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit.” PeopleStoriesFilmFallGoes OnPicksFilmmakerExhibits Author:Juliet Asante
“Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.” MenChildrenLongStillsNationsLosesPiecesGoes OnPicksSavedTribesPercentagesExpendables Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.” WritingMatterShowsMorningFiveAirGoes OnPicksTheaterNo Matter WhatRadioCooksClockLakesSaturdayFridayDeadlineAdrenalineMonologuesLake WobegonFriday Morning Author:Garrison Keillor
“Sometimes I pick up the phone, listen to cold caller alias name, repeat it several times in an incredulous tone and then - bam! - pretend to recognise them. I ask them if they remember the hell of a time we had at the 1985 summer camp when we set fire to the wooden shed, and I keep making things up and go on and on until they end up terminating the call.” IfsEndsSometimesRememberAsksNamesHellFireGoes OnColdSummerPicksPhonesToneRepeatsCampsShedRecogniseSummer CampAliases Author:Sean O'Grady
“It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as well. I'm funny about numbers. It's become a phobia, so I have to watch it. It affects your day a lot. Before I go on stage, there are certain things I do that are semi-sort of Gypsy superstitious things, but I'm coping with them. It hasn't affected the music, thank God. If you got really bad, you'd say "I'll pick that note instead of that one or sing this song before that.” IfsYearsWellsLastsCertainSongNumbersWatchesStageGoes OnPicksNotesGrandmotherAffectedThank GodMy GrandmotherCopingGypsySuperstitiousPhobia Author:Rory Gallagher
“You don't want to pick a fight with just the guy at the deli, [you want to] pick a fight somewhere in the world and just run towards it. Run because the fight is going to go on without you if you miss it.” IfsWorldWantRunningGuyFightingMissingGoes OnPicksWithout You Author:Bob Goff
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” IfsMotivationalHappinessSuccessWinningFearLosesChallengesSecretFailureGoes OnPicksPerseveranceDefeatObstaclesAfrican AmericanChampionCrushSomedayYou Can WinUndefeatedI Will WinGreat Winning Book:Wilma Source: Wilma
“Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.” ThinkingInspirationalHas BeensMightEvilInterestMinutesPerspectiveGoes OnPicksSorryRefuseShakesApologyMight Have BeenMorbidMisdeedsPick Yourself Up Book:The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill Source: The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill