Catching Quotes - Page 3

• I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hurt, Catching On, Catching Fire

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.253, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

  Daniel Webster

  Law, Spirit, Fraud

  Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857). “The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster”, p.222, Little, Brown

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• One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Country, Men, Practice

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• Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]

  Cato the Younger

  Art, True Friend, Thinking

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• There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Example, Disorder, Contagious

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• The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Fishing, Bait

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Fall, Men, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Carlyle (1904). “New letters of Thomas Carlyle”

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• The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Letter from Iceland (1937, by Auden and MacNeice) "Letter to William Coldstream, Esq."

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• Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.

  Frances Mayes

  Running, Dream, Home

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• I went down for a week with the Houston Marshals. I didn't know that they hated paperwork as much as I hated it. They loathe it, man. They want to be in their cars catching the bad guys. They don't want to be filling out paperwork about the bad guys, you know, and the ones they've caught.

  Kelli Giddish

  Men, Car, Guy

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• I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Ambition, Names

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• If you run after wit, you will succeed in catching folly.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Running, Succeed, Wit

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• Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

  Suzanne Collins

  Fire, President Snow, Games

  "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.

  Biz Stone

  Simple, Over You, Get Better

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

  Norman Maclean

  Father, Lakes, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

  Wilkie Collins

  Father, Garden, Hands

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.3350, Delphi Classics

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• I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.

  Jerry Rice

  Summer, Strong, Father

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• I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.

  Sarah Dessen

  Strong, Dark, Glasses

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that mouse is to the hawk circling outside my window. He's hungry. He needs a kill. So do I.

  Steven Pressfield

  Believe, Survival, Important

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• To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it.

  Shani Davis

  Basketball, Football, Baseball

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• Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Vision, Important, Stale

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

  J. B. Priestley

  Letting Go, Children, Imagination

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• Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Softball, Baseball, Games

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• Living in Sydney, I've taken the chance to start surfing again. One of my best memories of growing up is catching my first proper wave and surfing across it and my brother cheering at me from the shore.

  Markus Zusak

  Brother, Cheer, Growing Up

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• I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

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