Top 100 Catches Quotes
#1. Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies; one catches it through unprotected thought intercourse with the stirred-up concept of the infinite.
Peter Sloterdijk
#2. Writers should find out where joy resides and give it a voice. Every bright word or picture is a piece of pleasure set afloat. The reader catches it, and he goes on his way rejoicing. It's the business of art to send him that way as often as possible.
Nancy Horan
#3. Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.
Jon Landau
#4. One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it.
Dada Bhagwan
#5. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.
Bruce Springsteen
#6. I let her catch me.
I like it when she catches me.
But last summer, she stopped chasing. It sucks.
Nyrae Dawn
#7. I really get inspired by stylish girls around the world that I see on the street. Colors, patterns, throughout my travels, whatever catches my eye.
Olivia Palermo
#8. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard. Our preparations to receive Him sometimes have the opposite effect.
C.S. Lewis
#9. Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.
Gil Scott-Heron
#10. Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.
Simon Sinek
#12. Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.
Elliott Erwitt
#13. I reach out to touch his cheek and he catches my hand and presses it against his lips.
Suzanne Collins
#14. Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
Bill Gaede
#15. If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn?
Noah
#16. I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.
Winston Churchill
#17. As a kid, I loved to play centerfield. I loved to make diving catches.
Johan Santana
#18. The standard Chicago hot dog comes with everything you need to sustain life . . . until the bright green pickle relish catches up with you and you die.
Daniel Pinkwater
#19. And what happens when you stop innovating? Everyone else catches up, your jobs go overseas, and then you cry foul: Ooohh, they're paying them less over there, and the playing field is not level. Well, stop whining and start innovating.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#20. Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Jerry Rice
#21. The dying go so swiftly at the end. Always the speed of their leaving catches me unawares; so much left to say, to promise, to pray for.
M.C. Scott
#22. Her checkbook catches his eye. He takes it and hides it in the back of the freezer, underneath a bag of frozen lima beans. If she can freeze his account, he can freeze hers.
Mary Amato
#23. The moment my bare feet make contact with the wood floor, my breath catches in my throat. Blake swivels his body around to greet me.
"Morning, roomie."
His voice is like a shot of caffeine that ignites my body. How does he do that?
Alex Rosa
#24. I one time tripped on that shit with Cassius for a week on the Thermic." She catches my look. "Well, it was before I met you. And have you ever seen him with his shirt off? Don't tell Sevro, by the way.
Pierce Brown
#25. Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.
Ann Voskamp
#27. When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.
Stanley Schmidt
#28. How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Benjamin Franklin
#30. Meditation is taking the truth down into our hearts until it catches fire there and begins to melt and shape our reactions to God, ourselves, and the world.
Timothy Keller
#31. The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.
Madi Diaz
#35. A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
Edward M. Lerner
#36. Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Frederick William Faber
#37. One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
Henry IV Of France
#38. What do you want from me? Right now, from me," he whispers against my mouth.
My breath catches. Has he asked me that before?
Or have I only wished he has?
I swallow against my ball of nerves. "I don't want to be afraid.
K.A. Tucker
#39. She catches the fish, she cleans the fish, she cooks the fish, I just drive the boat.
Tssully Todd
#40. But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.
Francisco Goya
#41. It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky.
I'm sorry, Grandfather.
Ally Condie
#42. Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life - keep moving.
Mark Lawrence
#43. Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.
Mari Mancusi
#44. An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.
Stephen King
#46. The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.
Jim Carrey
#47. Sometimes, a story catches you the way a hunter snares its prey. And suddenly, things you thought you could ignore become the burning center of your world.
Natalie C. Parker
#48. Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
Karl Marx
#49. He holds his glass up and turns to me as a single flake catches on the rim before melting down the one side into an amber world where bubbles burst and are born, burst and are born.
Gloria Naylor
#50. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
Phillips Brooks
#51. Ideas are like the flint stone of wondrous works. You scratch at them until a spark flies ... then the world catches fire.
Gerard De Marigny
#52. Dev catches me in my moment of triumph, and for an instant, a weird, wicked gleam passes over his features. Great, now he'll think I was jealous. I take in the broken ceiling and the huge chunk of it that sits on the floor.
Yeah, okay, maybe I was.
E.J. Mellow
#53. The family that catches crocs together, rocks together. The Irwin family motto.
Terri Irwin
#54. I hold my hand out to her again. "Come on, fall with me." I mean that in more than one way and I hope she catches my meaning. I'm hoping she's falling for me like I'm falling for her.
Rachael Duncan
#55. Turn off the computer. Often, an open computer screen distracts us from other activities. Our eye catches a glimpse of something and before you know it, we're back at the desk and surfing away.
James Chartrand
#56. I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when the discover life isn't always like High School Musical.
Zac Efron
#57. You can lead a fish to water and it will probably thank you after it jumps in and catches it breath. LOL
K.R. Freeman
#58. A peaceful river attracts many people; similarly a person experiencing peaceful emotions catches the attention of others.
Hina Hashmi
#59. The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.
Tyne Daly
#60. God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
Charles R. Swindoll
#61. I am sure the ocean catches fire ocassionally.
Jay Bell
#62. The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines.
Benjamin Franklin
#63. What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.
Michael Weatherly
#65. Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
#67. Luke Willson ... I believe will have as many catches and more yards than Rob Gronkowski.
Sterling Sharpe
#68. It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.
Cynthia Hand
#69. But if our philosophy tells us that each man is only a small part of the world, that his intelligence catches at best only phases and aspects in a coarse net of ideas, then, when we use our stereotypes, we tend to know that they are only stereotypes, to hold them lightly, to modify them gladly. We
Walter Lippmann
#70. The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
Sue Monk Kidd
#71. Sometimes you catch the wave. Sometimes the wave catches you.
Michael Grant
#72. In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who know worms when they see them.
Michael Sadleir
#73. As I recall this I realize how open we are to the persistent message that we can avert death. And to its punitive correlative, the message that if death catches us we have only ourselves to blame. Only
Joan Didion
#74. You'd better run, little bunny ... before the big bad wolf catches you.
Aileen Rose
#75. You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.
Randy Moss
#76. What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
J.I. Packer
#77. I reached my hand up when he catches me by the wrist stopping me. "No touching," he speaks so low it is barley a whisper. I gasped, damn what a turn on, I try reaching for his hair with my other hand when he stops me again. Roughly he tells me again, "No touching.
Glenna Maynard
#78. My friend and coach reminded me this week that there is a moment when the acrobat lets go of one trapeze and is completely suspended in mid-air before she catches the incoming rung. You have to let go to get there.
Danielle LaPorte
#79. The fire catches shortly after, lapping up the dry wool, engulfing it like sweets
Rose Reid
#80. Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it always catches up
Robin Bertram
#81. I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you."
"You... you can?"
"It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.
Leigh Bardugo
#82. Too fucking late for sorry, innit? I hope he catches bubonic plague and dies in slow fucking agony the day before they legalise euthanasia and then I'm gonna go and learn Riverdance and I don't care how fucking long it takes cos I wanna do it on his grave.
Richard Rider
#83. The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a character that is every actor's dream. So, you combine those two factors and it's been an incredibly memorable five years.
John Noble
#84. I want to be the guy who catches the game-winning touchdown.
Hines Ward
#85. Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.
Paulo Coelho
#86. Godlike the man who
sits at her side, who
watches and catches
that laughter
which (softly) tears me
to tatters: nothing is
left of me, each time
I see her ...
Catullus
#87. Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone.
Fennel Hudson
#88. The fly lands on the swatter.
The movie runs backwards
and catches fire in the projector.
This species apes us well
by talking only about itself
Billy Collins
#89. When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.
Haruki Murakami
#90. I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
James Thurber
#91. I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#92. Pursue what catches your heart rather than what catches your eyes.
Roy Bennett
#93. People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls. But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.
Jim Harbaugh
#94. Flavius's foot catches on a metal grate over a circular opening in the floor, and my stomach contracts when I think of why a room would need a drain. The stains of human misery that must have been hosed off these white tiles ...
Suzanne Collins
#96. You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#97. So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.
Tobsha Learner
#98. A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.
A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick.
Lao-Tzu
#99. Doesn't it bother you that people don't get it?'
Pete starts to shake his head then he catches himself and holds still.
Nope,' he says. 'If you know what you love, it doesn't matter what other people think. Besides, people are challenged when they're uncomfortable.
K.L. Going
#100. I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It's a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place
Zu Vincent
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