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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

O God please smite the unbelievers with your holy wrath. Make them as toads in the garden eating dirty flies. Let them pluck out their own eyes and cook them in a holy broth.

Albrecht Druer

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.

Jean Baptiste Colbert

You know the hardest thing about having cerebral palsy and being a woman is plucking your eyebrows. That's how I originally got pierced ears.

Geri Jewell

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

H Ross Perot

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the ? what would you say ? plucking?

Angelina Jolie

Last week, someone saw a food delivery. The eagle was plucking feathers from a gull or duck in the nest.

Charlie Todd

"Since love first made the breast an instrumentOf fierce lamenting, by its flame my heartWas molten to a mirror, like a roseI pluck my breast apart, that I may hangThis mirror in your sightGaze you therein."

Allama Iqbal

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.

John August

Though there has been no dramatic breakthrough on Kashmir, both sides are reaching for, and plucking, the low-hanging fruit of the peace tree.

C. Uday Bhaskar

If you're going to pluck guys (from the Road Warriors), do it early. For the Patriots, this just made sense because it was something we had talked about before we got down here.

Adam Gladstone

Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there.

Beverly Cleary

We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives.

Leonard Sand

Everyone wants to pluck them [eyebrows]. I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me.

Denise Richards