Catches Up Quotes

#1. Paul looks like he'd rather just go home and make out in the kitchen; I would agree, except that I know my Dad is likely to be in there with his laptop, listening to the Beatles music as he catches up on all the Facebook "in memoriam" posts in his honor. Total mood-killer.

Claudia Gray

#2. Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Simon Sinek

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

Nat King Cole

#6. 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

#7. Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life - keep moving.

Mark Lawrence

#8. 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

#9. Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Judy Collins

#10. 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

#11. Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it always catches up

Robin Bertram

#12. 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

#13. From my own experience, 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. I'm generalizing, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#14. If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

Dirk Nowitzki

#15. By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

Fran Lebowitz

#16. Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Raquel Welch

#17. Lost time is gone forever. Nobody ever catches up.

Natalia Sylvester

#18. Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

Robert Palmer

#19. When you're the commander in chief, you're the commander in chief on day one. You don't get like a six-month grace period. The world doesn't just stop and say, well, let's wait until the president catches up before we start challenging America.

Marco Rubio

#20. No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Scott Westerfeld

#21. What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up.

Naomi Klein

#22. We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.

Paulo Coelho

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

Henepola Gunaratana

#26. They say the past always catches up with you, sooner or later. I prefer sooner, because by the time later rolls around, the past has picked up a lot of speed.

Dan Thompson

#27. You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Debbi Mack

#28. Fate is death. No one escapes it. But if you stick around long enough, you might find someone to help you cheat fate for a while. And when you can't cheat anymore, and fate finally catches up to you, maybe it won't seem so scary with that someone by your side.

Cassia Leo

#29. If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

Jason Calacanis

#30. When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

C. Everett Koop

#31. As life progresses, baggage can accumulate. For a while, things can be swept under the rug, but the wait of unfinished business eventually catches up.

Paul Gibbons

#32. I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.

Jonathan Tropper

#33. Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

Bono

#34. Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.

Russell Green

#35. Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Elvin C. Stakman

#36. Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up with me ... all the while time stands, to me, still - straight up and down like a great white sheet.

Joy Hester

#37. People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Jack Welch

#38. The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear ... he catches up.

Patrick Carman

#39. The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.

William Hazlitt

#40. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Nenia Campbell

#41. How many times has that happened? I find myself wondering. How many times have I sat, waiting, while he catches up with somebody else, somebody more important?

Abby McDonald

#42. No matter where you go or what you do to distract yourself, reality catches up with you eventually.

Kody Keplinger

#43. That's science fiction shit,"
"It's only fiction until science catches up.

J.D. Robb

#44. I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

Dabbs Greer

#45. She told me the French expression [Esprit de l'escalier] - the spirit of the staircase - for the voice that catches up with you, minutes after the fact, to make fun of whatever you said and come up with the perfect answer you didn't think of. We even had our own code phrase: SOS, we called it.

Francine Prose

#46. The present catches up to the future with alarming speed - I had forgotten that.

Lena Coakley

#47. It's so great in the theater when everyone catches up on the truth.

Tom Stoppard

#48. Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

Henry Rollins

#49. How many times can you get yourself massively irradiated before it catches up with you?" "At least once more?

James S.A. Corey

#50. When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

Zoe Sugg

#51. Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Homer

#52. Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the foundations on which any kingdom rests, and eats at those foundations, and it destroys doctrines by proving them to be untrue.

James Baldwin

#53. Life and career kind of catches up with you.

Duncan Jones

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. The fire catches shortly after, lapping up the dry wool, engulfing it like sweets

Rose Reid

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?

Margaret Atwood

#61. A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar

Tyler Farr

#62. Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

Mark Twain

#63. 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

#64. When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.

Ann Voskamp

#65. If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

Summer Altice

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & grind.

LaNina King

#69. But even moments like these can't last forever. Because sooner rather than later, the gravity of our actions catches right back up with us and all the smiles disappear.

Heather Lyons

#70. Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

Rex Stout

#71. You've ruined me," she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. "You've ruined me - you made me wake up. And now I can't get rid of you." Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. "You won't leave me alone.

Amie Kaufman

#72. Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

William Butler Yeats

#73. You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

Ken Kesey

#74. There is great power in focusing on what you want ... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

Robin Sharma

#75. I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

Dan Chaon

#76. It seems that when anything aimed at kids catches on, it causes the collective antennae of the older set to go up.

Jeff Kinney

#77. As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, 'If your hair catches on fire while you're making a wish, does that mean it isn't coming true?

Sarah Thebarge

#78. The early bird catches the worm & the sleeper catches nothing but dreams. Get up & get about your business. Good morning world, rise & grind.

LaNina King