Catching Quotes - Page 16

• My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Romantic, Hunger For Love, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• Flowers open every night
  across the sky, a breathing peace,
  and sudden flame catching.

  Rumi

  Flower, Night, Flames

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• In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, 'That's the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'

  Paul G. Quinnett

  Twilight, Hunting, Fishing

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• It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.

  Gary Carter

  Couple, Pain, Hands

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• On 3 things in his bucket list: On my bucket list... Uhm, the question is totally catching me by surprise. Some more travel, spending quality time with my family and just getting the most I can out of my wife and daughter.

  Gabriel Macht

  Daughter, Mother, Wife

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• Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beauty, Eye, Catching On

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• Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Fall, Men

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• All his life Robert Grainier would remember vividly the burned valley at sundown, the most dreamlike business he’d ever witnessed waking—the brilliant pastels of the last light overhead, some clouds high and white, catching daylight from beyond the valley, others ribbed and gray and pink, the lowest of them rubbing the peaks of Bussard and Queen mountains; and beneath this wondrous sky the black valley, utterly still, the train moving through it making a great noise but unable to wake this dead world.

  Denis Johnson

  Queens, Moving, Clouds

  Denis Johnson (2012). “Train Dreams”, p.30, Granta Books

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• The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure that the exposition sounds like thought and dialogue, and a plan or a problem or something that is motivationally induced, rather than just telling the audience information.

  Jack Coleman

  People, Trying, Balance

  Source: collider.com

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• There is no way to catch a snake that is as safe as not catching him.

  Jacob Braude

  Snakes, Safe, Way

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• Insanity is catching.

  Terry Pratchett

  Insanity

  Terry Pratchett (2007). “Making Money”, Harper

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• But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Running, Giving, Mind

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• I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Ocean, Thinking, Records

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• Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Fun, Theft

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second." "Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here.

  Kim Harrison

  Silly, Needs, Use

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• It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Attention, Chance

  "The Writing Life: An Interview with Karen Thompson Walker". Hazel & Wren Interview, www.hazelandwren.com. July 24, 2012.

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• The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Thinking, Cake

  Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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• Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Haste

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• Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, People, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.32, Scholastic Inc.

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• You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt, Opportunity, People

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.332, Scholastic UK

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• Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

  Jared Diamond

  Air, Bird, Design

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• A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

  Miss Read

  Drinking, Past, Sight

  Miss Read (2002). “Gossip from Thrush Green”, p.168, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt.

  Kim Harrison

  Circles, Pet, Tilt

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• I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Sports, Baseball, New York

  "A-Rod and Jeter: Rewind". Interview with Alan Schwarz, www.baseballamerica.com. February 19, 2004.

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• I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

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