Good Picker Upper Quotes & Sayings

Tanka
Black-and-white Holsteins
Crowd downfield at feeding time,
Mingling their blotches.
It is like ice breaking up
In a dark, swollen river. — Richard Wilbur

Slander is the first bastion of incompetency. — Steven Wood Collins

I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things. — Gore Vidal

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge. — Mark Cuban

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. — Angela Carter

The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them. — Bill Vaughan

I don't recall ever seeing my mother as a human being. She would always be weeping and wailing in the corner of the kitchen like a dog tied up to be tormented. My father would assail her with a hail of insults, and when her endurance broke, she would whine aloud, 'Why good Lord? Why? Take me and save me.' Only then would my father stand up, take the cord out of his headdress, and whip her nonstop for half an hour, spitting at her throughout. — Hassan Blasim

The dead should not speak, for their words smell of rot — Brom

Start young. Throw your arms around ladies' knees. As you get older it will get more interesting. — Shepherd Mead

Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed, released, renewed. As — Rebecca Solnit

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing. — Sean Young