Quotes & Sayings About Pickiness

Henry liked to put to himself when he was a schoolboy: what are the chances of this particular fish, from that shoal, off that continental shelf ending up in the pages of this copy of the Daily Mirror? Something just short of infinity to one. Similarly, the grains of sand on a beach, arranged just so. The random ordering of the world, the unimaginable odds against any particular condition, still please him. Even as a child, and especially after Aberfan, he never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god. — Ian McEwan

No one is doomed by genes to eat badly. Pickiness is governed more by environment than biology. — Bee Wilson

It's rare for me to be asked out and for me to respond in a positive way is rarer still. I'm the worst - a man has to be just right for me. — Cheryl Cole