Pickup Quotations

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

Global capital is agnostic - it has no loyalties. There's an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup. What Africa is providing is a diversification play and also opportunities for yield pickup for the investor that's aware of what he or she is doing.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.

If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.

The person who buys a Focus is more likely to stay with us to move into a mid-size car or SUV or pickup trucks,

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

We've been able to use NAFTA. We import a lot more products to fill niches. We don't have to assemble them locally. We've consolidated a lot around pickup trucks. Rather than build everything to sell in Mexico, you can ship finished products back and forth. You get the production efficiencies of scale.

When I was in high school, we would load up out-of-state hunters in a 1955 International pickup truck and tell them to hang on. We would bring them back after the hunt, dustier than heck and they would give us some cash.

When we have this much equity in a show, and the audience responds as rabidly as they did this year, it's a big success for us. This is and will remain one of our signature shows. A pickup was a no-brainer.

We're just not seeing the demand pickup we'd like to see, and we hit a wall on some of the cost savings we were driving for.

What we'll see over the next few years is a pickup in overall development in the city and the fringe areas around the city.

There is a recognized need that there is still a ways to go in increasing their capabilities. Yeah, they've got a few pickup trucks it's better than walking. Yeah, it would be nice if they all had Bradleys. We're not there yet.

We had a few drinks and were trying to be friendly and one of them said, 'You fellas ever shoot guns before,' ... And we said no. So they're like, 'Come with us.' And before we could argue they'd taken us in their pickup trucks to a ranch in the desert.

We've seen a tremendous pickup (in investor interest) in the last year.

We've seen a noticeable pickup in concern over the last two months.

There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.

We've seen a clear pickup in consumer spending and housing and now the manufacturing sector. I'd say with a couple more months, businesses will start to gain confidence.

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I write on that guitar, and it's the first guitar that I put a pickup in and ran through an amplifier, splitting the signal to the amplifier and a DI or in the studio mic'ing it traditionally and putting an amp in the other room.

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army, ... To make the Iraqi Army stand on its own without American or coalition forces, we need command and control equipment, transport vehicles and training.

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Signs of a pickup in U.S. consumer confidence helped make investors more confident about the economic outlook globally. Technology stocks are sensitive to the global economy, and they tend to benefit the most when growth is evident.

Since the beginning of December, we have seen a real pickup in the number of people who have been long-term BlackBerry users at least interested in what the other solutions are in the market.

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Nobody has any sympathy for oil companies on Capitol Hill right now. You talk to someone driving to work in an F-150 pickup and paying $75 to fill up his tank, and everybody's on his side.

On Monday, your lineup is set in stone. You can make a pickup any day, but it won't show up in your lineup until the following Monday.

I was so excited, so worried, I lost the keys to my car, and my collector's car was in the garage, so I had to pick Joy up in my pickup truck. I found my car keys a week later; they were in the bottom of a planter in my yard. I had left them there while I was weeding.

If this was a normal hurricane in Florida, you'd have construction people in pickup trucks heading south right now to help clean up and rebuild. Instead you have the governor saying to stay away.

I have every intention of revolutionizing the way people unload their pickup trucks. I want to sell a million of them. That's not so far fetched.

I don't know why this car takes to this track, ... This has just been a magic, magic place for me. I could bring a pickup truck here and win. I love this place.

I don't know why my car takes to this racetrack. It's just a magic, magic place to me. I swear I could bring a pickup truck and it would run fast for me. I wish we had 20 races a year here.

I'd be a bit nervous about the pound's rally recently. We've not seen enough evidence of a pickup in growth and the focus is still on the next rate cut, which I think we'll get in February.

I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.

Barring a major economic dislocation, such as a big pickup in inflation, I think home builders can grow their earnings at a double digit basis for the next two to three years.

I had just retired and was not sure what I was going to do. I hadn't played (softball) in 35 years. The last time was in the service; pickup games in Vietnam when it was safe to do so.

Frankly, the risk of a major pickup seems to have faded lately. We haven't gotten more action from energy prices.

For us, it was a good pickup to add a veteran to a very young team.

Global interest rates are having an effect. ... We've seen a pickup in interest-rate expectations in the U.S., and I think that's leading to concerns about the growth outlook, which is hitting the more cyclical sectors.

If this were just an industry event, we'd be looking at a bunch of guys driving up in pickup trucks and blue jeans. Not that there's anything wrong with that ... but now it's much more.

If that's the case, I'm sure a comparable amount of pickup trucks never haul their capacity.

He has been a very pleasant pickup for us. He has velocity (92-95 mph) on his fastball, tilt on his slider, a pretty good change for left-handers and every once in a while he drops that hook. He's made an impression.

He has great, great timing and great leaping ability. But most of all he has a great desire to go get it. Every time the ball goes up he's around it. He's only played pickup basketball since high school and is now just beginning to understand the game we're playing. He's very difficult to guard.

He hurt it the other day during a pickup game, and we just wanted to run a few tests to make sure everything was fine. We wanted to make sure he was 100 percent before we put him out there in the mix for training camp.

He is a big pickup in my opinion. With the addition of Quincy, and we put him out there in our four wides, we are going to have four great receivers on the field and it is going to give us a lot of versatility. There is no question he is a great addition to the team. I am excited.

This was not a pickup game or something associated with an after-school program. Right now our main concern is to have the proper infrastructure in place ... to ensure that the staff and students at the school have the emotional support they need on what is going to be a traumatic day.

The people have been so generous. We already have enough items to fill up two pickup trucks.

Having a really solid drummer behind us gave us all a charge. Dave is just this gem in Pittsburgh, this national caliber drummer. We were very fortunate to have him. It's like playing a pickup basketball game with an NBA guy, it just forces you all to play better.

He's a good pitcher that's got electrifying stuff. He throws in the upper 90s and has an unbelievable slider. I think he's a great pickup for us. I'm very excited to have him.

Heroic in scale and impact, the Super Chief was what concepts should be all about: 'blue sky' thinking combined with an unmistakable foundation in reality. Take a long look at that front end, pickup fans, because that's what the next generation of the F-150 is going to look like.

He's got 13 wins and pretty much carried us through a stretch there. He'd take the hill, and we knew we were getting seven shutout innings. He's been a big pickup for us.

He's got 13 wins and pretty much carried us through a stretch there, ... He'd take the hill and we knew we were getting seven shutout innings. He's been a big pickup for us.

The rally the past few days shows investors are willing to look past this period of uncertainty toward a pickup in growth in early 2006. It's a pretty optimistic viewpoint and that could change when the data comes in.

He's playing better and better. He's doing a lot of things that he has done in the past in pickup games and stuff like that. In the summer, we got to see him handle the ball quite a bit. It's really carrying over. A lot of the stuff he's worked on all year, we're starting to see in games.

Half of our bullpen drives pickup trucks, ... They go hunting. They don't go to South Beach on their off days.

James Byrd at the time he was chained at the back of the pickup truck was alive, ... Not only was he alive, he was conscious at the time, and he was using his elbows and his body in any way he could to keep his head and shoulders away from the pavement.

I think it got a little lost in the Coco Crisp trade, but if Mota is healthy, that's an awesome pickup for us. I remember when he and (Eric) Gagne were together in the Dodgers' bullpen. They were electric.

I think it's more like a mutual respect now. Whenever I see John, whether it's playing pickup ball at Saint Joe's or La Salle, or working out in the summer, I always like to catch up and see how everything's going. Once you get to the NBA, you lose that heated rivalry. We both made it.

I think the NRF forecast is hopefully optimistic. I don't see a pickup in sales until the pace of layoffs slows down.

I think the NRF forecast is hopefully optimistic, ... I don't see a pickup in sales until the pace of layoffs slows down.

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

It is simply too unsafe to let any of our keiki ride in the back of pickup trucks. We have to protect them. It breaks my heart to see teenagers in the ER after accidents like the one we experienced this past weekend in Kona.

I think we'll see a pickup in market activity in the afternoon, but for now market participants are reluctant to take positions ahead of Bush's address later in the morning.

Jim drove her home in the pickup and he delivered her to my dad. My dad took her to the rehab unit. Then, all of a sudden, it's a solo album again.

Rita hit on a Saturday and interrupted our pickup that day, and we lost power at our facility until that Tuesday,

Our lowered expectations imputes a meaningful pickup in demand over the next three weeks.

Some of the pickup reflects mix shifts, with payroll growth in above-average-wage sectors accelerating relative to growth in below-average-wage sectors. That said, some legitimate pickup in wage gains is probably credible given the low unemployment rate and the energy-led rise in inflation expectations recently.

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.

Looking ahead, the consensus expectation for a pickup in economic activity is not unreasonable, though the timing and extent of that improvement continue to be uncertain,

Mostly they're coming in the passing game, in blitz pickup and protections and check-downs, ... He's got the running game pretty much covered. He's in the right place all the time.

Merrill saw the most pickup in traditional retail. Morgan Stanley still seems like the problem child.

You just have to go out and play your game, whether it's pickup in the gym or against the best defensive player in the conference.

You can afford a new 2005 pickup truck, why are you stealing from the Salvation Army?

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006.

We're delighted by the third season pickup of WILDFIRE, which we see as one of the staples of our prime time lineup of programming. It is another example of our ability to generate quality programming with enduring appeal targeted to the specific needs of cable networks.

We have a good opportunity for the dollar to do better than it seems for some time. The pickup in yield is quite wide.

We have three dedicated lines just to handle the calls. Once the drivers learn their routes and the customers become familiar with their pickup days, then the problem will go away.

We have the great opportunity to enjoy Idaho, ride in pickup trucks, ride horses and chase cows, and there's not a lot of places you can do that.

We had to make two trips in the pickup

You have one part of the pickup market that is not going to change, but most will shop around, ... It's good to have loyal customers, but it's not 90 percent or even 70 percent.

We are seeing on one side fewer layoffs, and on the other side we are seeing a pickup in hiring.

We're not seeing enough pickup in production or imports. This should be enough to support the whole energy complex through the balance of the week.

The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.

The pickup in imports is in line with the sense we had that the slowdown in the U.S. economy is close to its bottom. To some extent, last month's trade balance seemed surprisingly narrow, and this number is more in line with our basic view of the economy. We continue to see a U.S. economy that is growing slowly, but definitely growing.

The pickup in domestic demand seems to be starting to boost activity in the tertiary sector.

The pickup in construction of new homes is good news for the Australian building industry, pointing to firmer activity ahead.

What we have seen over time is a gradual pickup in underlying growth momentum. The strength we were seeing earlier in the year in the export side has started to spill over to investment.

We had a pickup truck full, ... We bought hundreds of dollars worth of supplies.

We opened the tournament to teams in recreational and pickup leagues and raised the age from 19 to 23, so we could keep competitive junior players out of the tournament.

We were able to track the pickup truck to the Liberty City area, Northwest 30th Court and 93rd Street, and Miami-Dade police were able to locate the vehicle and take the two occupants into custody.

The data suggests the pickup we saw in consumer spending in December and January will ease off in February/March.

We should see some small increases in retail sales over coming months, but without a decent pickup in the labor market and incomes, we won't see much of an improvement.

While partly the result of a rebound from hurricane disruptions, the rise in Texas' leading indicators appears to be signaling a sustainable pickup in economic activity.

While our checks suggest that there was a general pickup in hardware business at the end of the March quarter, this was probably not sufficient for IBM to make our original revenue forecasts.

We would get more constructive on shares on supply chain improvements and a pickup in the wireless business. Conversely, our outlook would worsen on margin deterioration and market share losses in the optical and enterprise businesses.

This report backs the Reserve Bank remaining on hold ahead. Weakness in retail and transport is being mitigated by a pickup in mining and construction.

There has been more capital-markets activity than anticipated and the pickup in volatility has helped proprietary trading revenue.

There has been a modest pickup in spending but it's still pretty tough out there. It's definitely growth initiatives that are driving sales since the switch and router market is pretty tepid.

We kindly tell them we've pulled so many people who were critically injured or killed out of a pickup truck because they weren't wearing a seat belt because the law doesn't require it,