Chasing Quotes - Page 19

• I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

  Brie Larson

  Mom, Turkeys, Play

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• My buddy Tom... he'd been chasing a girl for two years, and he got her the old-fashioned way - dates and listening.

  Greg Behrendt

  Girl, Years, Two

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• There is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society.

  Guido Calabresi

  Teaching, Fundamentals, Students

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• When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog

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• We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Grateful, Ordinary, Busy

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• Most of all, I like chasing girls.

  Brian Littrell

  Girl, Chasing A Girl

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• Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

  Norah Jones

  Butterfly, Your Side, Want

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• Sometimes failure is merely chasing you off the wrong road and onto the right one.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Sometimes, Wrong Road

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• If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Writing, Years

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Necks, Running Away

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• Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Years, Frisbee, Five Year Olds

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• You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Pops

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.

  Marc Almond

  Years, Needs, Clubs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.

  Sarah Stillman

  War, People, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.

  Satish Kumar

  Moving, Example, World

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Vision, Building

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

  Annie E. Clark

  Player, Guitar, Intuitive

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Do not let anything get in your way of chasing your dreams.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Dream, Way, Chase Your Dreams

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I think it's hard to understand in economics. It's easier to understand on psychology.It's a kind of panic or a sense that the world economy is just not in as good shape as we thought and so everybody is chasing everybody else.

  David Wessel

  Thinking, Psychology, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You become a victim of your own success. It's what happens in TV when Fox has a big hit with the X-Files. And they start chasing and the rest of their shows suffer. Because the experimentation that made the X-Files a show is all of the sudden lost.

  Scott Aukerman

  Suffering, Foxes, Tvs

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been chasing ostracism by that point for probably 300 years. You just knew that you should have dropped into your black hole.

  Harry Hay

  Mean, Gay, Difficult Situations

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

  Isha Judd

  Profound, Needs, Tails

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• I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something emotional, something that's not just chasing the laugh."

  John C. Reilly

  Emotional, Men, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.

  Teju Cole

  Beautiful, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You've got to go where the work is. My mom got a job somewhere else so I went and lived with her and then I just bounced all over going to school, chasing rainbows and all that.

  Nikki Jean

  Mom, Jobs, School

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