Catching Quotes

• The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

  Warren Buffett

  Hope, Money, Catching On

  "Warren Buffett: Read My Lips, Raise My Taxes". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 21, 2010.

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• People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

  John Jay Chapman

  Happiness, Worry, People

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• Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

  Inspiring, Photography, Photographer

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Hands, Schedules

  "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Forever, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

  Lewis Thomas

  Climbing, Hiking, Glimpse

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

  Andy Roddick

  Sports, Running, Home

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• An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

  Karl Kraus

  Writing, Ideas, Feelings

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

  Conan O'Brien

  Blow, Men, Virginia

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• And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

  Wendell Willkie

  Party, Political, Groups

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• One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Nice, Tennis, Joy

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• I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

  Howie Carr

  Running, Thinking, Fbi Agents

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• Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

  Story Musgrave

  Writing, Prose Poetry, Different

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Rivers

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• Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot.

  Ivan Lendl

  Sports, Order, Balls

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• They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

  Willie Mays

  Sports, Baseball, African American

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• If you chase two rabbits,
  you catch none.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Editors

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• So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Plans

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.978, Scholastic Inc.

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• ‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Eyelashes, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Memorable, Missing

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Change, Glasses

  "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, (Ch. 16), 1951.

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• MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

  Paul Ekman

  Cheating, Work, Lying

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  Henry James

  Kindness, Air, Imperfection

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

  Duke Kahanamoku

  Patience, Time, Swimming

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