Catching Quotes - Page 15

• At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

  Suzanne Collins

  Running, Catching On, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.118, Scholastic Inc.

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• Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Odds

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

  Joel Garreau

  Cancer, Wind, Waiting

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.183, Broadway Books

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• All I see is sissies in magazines smiling...
  Whatever happened to wildin' out and being violent?
  Whatever happened to catching a good, old-fashioned, passionate ass whoopin'?
  And getting your shoes, coat and your hat tooken?

  Eminem

  Rap, Shoes, Hip Hop

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• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, People, Insulting

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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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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• Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.

  Frederick Rolfe

  War, Twenties, Fickle

  "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 58), 1963.

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• After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

  Gladys Taber

  Grief, Fishing, Worry

  "The book of Stillmeadow".

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• They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

  Koichi Tohei

  Art, Rabbits, Lions

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• Haste is good only in catching fleas.

  Alla Yaroshinskaya

  Wisdom, Haste, Fleas

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• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Fly fishing is not about catching the fish. It is about enjoying the water, the breeze, the fish swimming all around. If you catch one, good. If you don't...that is even better. That mean you come out and get to try all over again.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Mean, Swimming, Fishing

  Clare Vanderpool (2013). “Navigating Early”, p.175, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'

  Mac Anderson

  Attitude, Needs, Contagious

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• The immediacy of the technology of the web allows us, as songwriters, to write something very sharp and quick. That has a lot to do with helping a songwriter be more reflective of reality, instead of being in an area where you have to process things. It's the difference between processing fish and catching it in a boat.

  Chuck D

  Writing, Technology, Reality

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• As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

  Lili Taylor

  Stories, Catching Up, Havens

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

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• Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

  Howard Blum

  Fire, Sea, Spy

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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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• Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Contentment, Rags

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.8, Wordsworth Editions

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• I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal. Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.

  Alan Bradley

  Thinking, Long Ago, Oatmeal

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.145, Delacorte Press

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• All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Beautiful, Clouds, Mirrors

  How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

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• Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

  Goldie Hawn

  Inspirational, Lightning, Bottles

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• Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Lying, Deep Water

  "Extreme Enviros: Drill, Baby, Drill in ANWR – Now Do You Get It?". www.facebook.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Thinking, Prey

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• Be a gold-medal multitasker. You should be able to discuss the new Ludacris video while correcting the merchandising spreadsheets, picking the right shade of snakeskin for next season's mini-purses and catching the dog at the same time!

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Dog, Gold, Shade

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