Zack Greinke

Baseball, in my opinion, would be a lot better if you could just make the same salary as everybody else in the world, and you don't deal with any of the other stuff. But that's not how it is. The main thing is I want to pitch against the best players in the world, and you can't do that playing in a pickup baseball league in your town.

American Athlete

Donald Faison

To be honest with you, girls didn't really start paying attention to me until after 'Clueless' came out. Then, all of a sudden, it was different. And that's the honest-to-goodness truth. I wasn't very popular until that happened. I have zero pickup lines. My game, I guess you could say, is my work.

American Actor

Dorothy Allison

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.

American Writer

Janet Yellen

A pickup in demand in many advanced economies and a stabilization in commodity prices should, in turn, boost the growth prospects of emerging market economies.

American Public Servant

Sissy Spacek

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

American Actress

Solomon Ortiz

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

American Politician

Alex Cox

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

British Director

Peyton Manning

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

Sylvia Hoeks

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

Dutch Actress

Michael Steger

A pickup is smaller than a semi-truck but larger than most cars.

Vehicle Size

Pickup trucks are iconic in American culture, often associated with rural life.

American Icon

The open bed of the pickup is key for transporting large items.

Open Bed

Pickup refers to the moment someone or something is collected.

Action Timing

Pickup often means a pre-arranged meeting for collecting someone.

Arranged Meeting

In music, a pickup isn't a vehicle but part of an electric guitar.

Music Equipment

Different pickups can change the quality and tone of the guitar sound.

Sound Quality

Pickup can mean something resumes or increases in intensity.

Restart Action

This pickup implies improvement, like in economy or health.

Positive Change

A pickup game is informal and spontaneously organized, not official.

Casual Event

 people are more likely to take Uber at different times of the day than they otherwise would have, and they're more likely to use it in places they wouldn't have before. And what that means for a driver is wherever he or she drops somebody off, they're much more likely to get a pickup and get back in. And so what that means is more trips per hour,

Uber's plan to get more...

 or in this case, ketchup. So this is a query that we had -- I guess it's a popular band that was more popular in some parts of the world than others. You can see that it got started right here. In the U.S. and Spain, it was popular at the same time. But it didn't have quite the same pickup in the U.S.

Sergey Brin and Larry...

 their backpacks and their pickup trucks and driving through the night students who had taken a week off school people who are self-employed unemployed even a few who would used vacation time to leave their jobs and come and help after years in the military loyal following orders these men and

Lessons we can learn...

 where they can reach out to each other for support and to share experiences. And not just that. She can actually ping another driver in her vicinity if she is feeling distressed, if she's in danger, or if she’s simply just waiting for her next ride or pickup and doesn't want to wait alone.

My Long Walk Across...

 that move around our world on a daily basis, while conveniently still not being able to see individuals. We had found our compromise. We would have to build something larger than the original breadbox, now more like a mini-fridge, but we still wouldn't have to build a pickup truck.

Dan Berkenstock: The...

 that puts you in direct contact with people completely unlike yourself is something we all have a responsibility for. I may get this a little wrong, but I think of the top-selling automotive models in this country, I think the top three or four are all pickup trucks.

Political common ground...

 worker and he said I'm gonna get you out of here and he drove me which he absolutely did not need to do with his wife van they drove me all the way to Thailand which was eight hours in the back of a pickup truck on the most potholed Road ever and here you can see

Alison Wright: Portraits...

 and they cheapened it. What's worse, when they realized their mistake and they took away the financial incentive, the late pickups still stayed at the high level. They had already poisoned the social contract. Health care is full of strong intrinsic motivations.

Why it's so hard to make...

 producing a throbbing effect, which guitarists call the beats. And electric guitars give you even more to play with. The vibrations still start in the strings, but then they're translated into electrical signals by pickups

The physics of playing...

 about 400 hours sitting in the pickup definitely worst places to be this is a pretty special place