Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood. Norman Mailer
Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconservatives in Canada. Jane Jacobs
Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way. Sylvia Plath
The blind man has picked up a coin. Portuguese Proverb
An udara fruit that falls by the roadside must want to be picked up and eaten. Ibo Proverb
Loose words are picked up like gold coin. Russian Proverb