pick quotes

The fellows were practising long shies and bowling lobs and slow twisters. In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man.

Everybody wants you to pick it up, and nobody wants you to put it down.

-William D(oyle) Ruckelshaus
  Articulating 'the First Law of Garbage'. In Fortune, 21 Nov.