Catching Quotes - Page 2

• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

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• Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Life, Knowing

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• A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

  Annie Dillard

  Schedules, Chaos, Whim

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• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

  Marlon Brando

  Snakes, Long, Bamboo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Dog, Home, Kids

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Travel, Missing

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• Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

  Heather King

  Children, Average, Laughing

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• The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

  Barry Zito

  Outfielders

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• And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

  Elton John

  Country, Gay, People

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• Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Important, Criminals, Witness

  Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken

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• The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Mean, Fish Tanks, Done

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.

  Anthony Trollope

  Night, Achievement, Salmon

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Marion Fay”, p.319, Anthony Trollope

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• Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

  Louis Leakey

  Religious, Men, Magic

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• I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

  Sergio Aragones

  Sharks, Scare, Bigs

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• When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

  Joe Theismann

  Mom, Prime, Receiver

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• I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.

  George Combe

  Fear, Air, Gentleman

  George Combe (1841). “Notes on the United States of North America: During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40”, p.85

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• In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

  Robin Tunney

  Two, Acting, Different

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• I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

  Robin Yount

  Sports, Dream, Finals

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• Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Hope, Crazy

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• Aim higher in case you fall short.

  Suzanne Collins

  Inspirational, Fall, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.523, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing is so catching as example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Example

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• That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Desperate Measures, Catching Fire

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• The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Song, Catching On, Flames

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.981, Scholastic Inc.

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• Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

  Giorgio Armani

  Memories, Eye, Elegance

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• If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, District 12

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