Caught Quotes - Page 34

• Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Integrity, Love Life, Contagion

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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• No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, America, Ears

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• Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.

  Lillian Hellman

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

  Lillian Hellman (1971). “The collected plays”, Little Brown and Company

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• It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

  Julia Child

  Passion, Joy, Shame

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• Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Nice, Loneliness, Home

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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• A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

  Susan Sontag

  Discovery, Idols, Lust

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.330, Macmillan

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• They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.

  Jerry Rice

  Nfl, Way, Scared

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• About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew, and Chuck Weber fell on it. I clenched my fist, I turned around, and I closed my eyes and I said, 'This f-in game is over.'

  Chuck Bednarik

  Eye, Nfl, Games

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• If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Thinking, Play

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.608, Penguin

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• A lot of men are very sloppy with the way they cheat. You can get caught from your cell phone or hanging around the wrong people while you're doing your dirt. Or you can get caught after a woman purposely leaves something in your car.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Men, Phones, Cells

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Business Deals, Sight

  "Online Extra: Peyton Manning's IMG Dream Team". Interview with Diane Brady, www.bloomberg.com. July 12, 2004.

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• I think we all have a lot of different personas inside of ourselves. What happens in life is that most people get caught up in presenting one persona that they feel safest in.

  Vince Vaughn

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

  Michael Bay

  Fire, Littles, Firsts

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

  David Bezmozgis

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd,
  The child is born by many a pang endear'd
  And now the mother's ear has caught his cry;
  O grant the cherub to her asking eye!
  He comes--she clasps him. To her bosom press'd
  He drinks the balm of life, and drops to rest.

  Samuel Rogers

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

  Rufus Choate

  Air, Want, Association

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 481), 1895.

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• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

  Ruth Gordon

  Lying, Who Cares, Looks

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• I don't pray. When I was young, I vowed I never would be caught begging God. If I want something I get it for myself. I go to church only to show the old hens they don't get me down.

  Louise Erdrich

  Want Something, Church, Would Be

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.77, Odyssey Editions

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• ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Literature

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.

  Renata Adler

  Lying, Intelligent, People

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.83, New York Review of Books

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• In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

  Raymond Mortimer

  Islam, Faces, Skirts

  Raymond Mortimer (1976). “Try anything once”, Hamish Hamilton

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• I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Common Sense, Immigration

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech At Breakfast Reception In Sligo, Ireland, www1.nyc.gov. August 22, 2006.

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• The woman who steals your boyfriend has the ugliest shoes on earth. Truly hideous. You wouldn't be caught dead in them.

  Mimi Pond

  Shoes, Your Boyfriend, Earth

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.

  Jessie Sampter

  Running, Block, Eye

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Running, Class

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