Pluck famous quotes
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...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.
-- Anne Fadiman -
Anyone can pluck a flowertrue strength is knowing how to give it life
-- Aprilynne Pike -
When they're born outside, crows come and pluck their eyes out.
-- David Sedaris -
No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
-- Erik Larson -
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
-- Juvenal -
If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.
-- William Allingham -
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
To pluck up the courage and open your heart, and embrace someone else's heart is difficult.
-- Min -
To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.
-- Etheridge Knight -
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.
-- Henry Taylor -
The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
-- Jean-Baptiste Colbert