David Lynch plucked me from obscurity.
At times, it appeared to rise almost to my level, as if wishing to pluck me away.
"In 1965, when I was 27, Ben Bradlee plucked me from the slush pile of probationary reporters.
And, feigning an interest in insurance, he cries, "I'm ripe- pluck me" with a mock-maidenly glee.
He plucked me out of a store in Harlem and encouraged me to open the first "Nobody Beats the Wiz" store on Fulton Street.
The night I left Big Brother, there was an agent, the omnipresent John Noel, waiting to pluck me from the crowd and offer me the potential of television delights.
They had no right to pluck me out like a radish, like a beet, like a scallion, like a parsnip from among my own.
Rain in Jan: –3 in: 18h: This winter, from time to time, I have heard a bird-song that plucks me right out of the season and throws me forward into some other, leafier time of year.
What if she's the kind of woman who can grow into a hundred-and-twenty-five-foot-tall giant, pluck me up in her massive fingers, and then hurl me into the sun?
"No, I haven't done tennis, but ESPN plucked me seven and a half years ago from Redding, Calif., and pretty much everything I did I did for the first time," he said.
