Caughtness Quotes

#1. The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

Jonathan Franzen

#2. I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.

Robert Atkins

#3. The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

#4. It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

Naomi Wolf

#5. Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources.

Craig Venter

#6. Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

Barney Oliver

#7. You'll know they've spotted us when they screech," Skulduggery told her. The creatures screeched.

Derek Landy

#8. I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Charlotte Bronte

#9. Love is love, whether it goes on two legs or four.

Gwen Cooper

#10. I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

Dan Brown

#11. On my wedding day, I gifted my wife a platinum ring.

Vijender Singh

#12. Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

Craig Venter

#13. I'd never seen a place so well appointed.
"This is too much," I said. "Much too much. I'd be more comfortable with something less fussy. Like a broom closet."
"All the broom closets are full," he said. "Of brooms.

Devon Monk

#14. In today's roller-coaster economy, hyper-competitive, fear-based, flat and global world, convincing anyone to do anything at any time requires getting their attention, creating their intention and turning it to action.

Peter Guber

#15. Once the people are terrorized, you can force a police state on them.

Mae Brussell

#16. Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

Agatha Christie