„I mean, I did ride the Paris subway in an attempt to get pick-pocketed in order to see how exactly they did it. My buddy was videoing the whole thing. No one picked my pocket. We got bolder and bolder as we went, but it didn’t pan out for us.“

„How'd you get in here?"
She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.” Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?” she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.“

—  Ally Carter, книга Heist Society

Источник: Heist Society

„Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.“

—  Rodney Dangerfield American actor and comedian 1921 - 2004

„I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.“

—  Rex Stout, книга Might as Well Be Dead

Источник: Might as Well Be Dead

„I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said… but did not.“

—  Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974

Источник: The Complete Poems

„I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.“

—  Sam Neill Irish-born New Zealand actor 1947

The Irish Times, 13 December 2008

„How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?“

—  David Hockney British artist 1937

Interview with Mark Feeney, "David Hockney keeps seeking new avenues of exploration," Boston Globe (26 February 2006)
2000s

„I mean, did you think I was just a fake person here, that they picked out of, you know, that they picked out of a supermarket? Didn't you think that I had any legal experience at all, sir?“

—  Judith Sheindlin American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author 1942

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tcUYWijiw
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Being cocky

„Whenever I go and see the Führer, I've got a loaded pistol in my pocket.“

—  Franz Halder German general 1884 - 1972

Explaining his fear of Hitler, from "The Guardian," July 11, 2004.
Sourced Encyclopedia of the Third Reich Louis L. Snyder

„They would take our drugs and money, as they pick our pockets
I guess that's the privilege of policing for some profit.“

—  Killer Mike Rapper and occasional actor from Atlanta, Georgia 1975

Song lyrics, R.A.P. Music (2012)

„One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.“

—  Bono Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

National Prayer Breakfast (2006)
Контексте: One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God.
For me, at least, it got in the way. Seeing what religious people, in the name of God, did to my native land... and in this country, seeing God's second-hand car salesmen on the cable TV channels, offering indulgences for cash... in fact, all over the world, seeing the self-righteousness roll down like a mighty stream from certain corners of the religious establishment...
I must confess, I changed the channel. I wanted my MTV.
Even though I was a believer.
Perhaps because I was a believer.

„How did they pick John Doe?“

—  John Dos Passos, книга Manhattan Transfer

Manhattan Transfer (1925)

„As influences faces growth, some will want my buzz cut. Growing bolder in my vision but I often feel stuck.“

—  Marcus Orelias American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur 1993

Portraits
20s A Difficult Age (2017)

„I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?“

—  Richelle Mead, Bloodlines

Источник: Bloodlines

„I got cheddar to blow, pockets never get low“

—  Big L (rapper) American rapper 1974 - 1999

„The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.“

—  Thomas Jefferson, книга Notes on the State of Virginia

Query XVII
1780s, Notes on the State of Virginia

„The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.“

—  Charles Macklin Irish actor 1699 - 1797

Love à la Mode (1759), Act ii. Sc. 1.

„Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?
Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?“

—  Joanna Newsom American musician 1982

Ys (2006)

„A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing.“

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834

22 September 1830.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Контексте: A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection; and trust more to your imagination than to your memory.

„My flow is in the pocket like Wallace
I got the bounce like hydraulics
I can't call it
I got the swerve like alcoholics“

—  Канье Уэст American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977

Get Em High
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)