Top 100 Hatch Quotes
#1. Now, space has its own unique smell. So whenever a vehicle docks, or if guys are out doing a spacewalk, the smell of space when you open up the hatch is very distinct. It's kind of like a burning-metal smell, if you can imagine what that would smell like.
Scott Kelly
#2. And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
Paul Krugman
#3. Alvin smiled back, and kissed her. People talk about fools counting chickens before they hatch. That's nothing. We name them.
Orson Scott Card
#4. Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.
Benjamin Franklin
#5. She spun a hundred-eighty degrees at the end of the passageway, landed like an acrobat beside the drum hatch. "The reason. Why something would attack us even if we didn't have anything it wanted." I read it off her: "If it wasn't attacking at all. If it was defending itself.
Peter Watts
#6. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#7. I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.
Murray Walker
#9. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#10. Time is an incubator. In some cases, it changes people. In others, it lets things grow and hatch. Too much time and it turns into a monster.
Karina Halle
#11. O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen
Frederick Buechner
#12. If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)
Kate Atkinson
#13. Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Tiberius
#14. So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.
Rex Hunt
#15. Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.
Charles Stross
#16. I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.
Paul Fry
#17. What we need is progress with an escape hatch.
John Updike
#18. There was no decision to make, really. When, against all odds, the miraculous happened and the spaceship landed for you and the hatch opened, you got on. The end. It didn't even matter if you would wind up as food or taken on a trip to the stars. Some things were worth the risk.
Eli Easton
#19. Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.
N. T. Wright
#20. The Indian peasant is the world's champion shitter. Stacks of chappaties and mounds of mustard leaf-mash down the hatch twice a day; stacks of shit a.m. and p.m.
Khushwant Singh
#21. You cannot be a part-time candidate when you're running against Orrin Hatch.
Scott Howell
#22. Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.
Scott Howell
#23. Will you open up the exit hatch, please, computer?
Douglas Adams
#24. The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg,
But I will not hatch, I will not hatch.
For I hear all the talk of pollution and war
As the people all shout and the airplane roar,
So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm,
And I WILL NOT HATCH!
Shel Silverstein
#25. He couldn't get enough control to push the button. Suddenly there was a clank and a clanging and the squeal of metal above him and he looked up. The hatch door was closing.
James Dashner
#26. Adam said, "You were smart to figure it out."
"Oh, I don't know," Gansey replied, but it was clear he was proud. Adam felt like he had helped a bird hatch from an egg.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. I was upset, sad, angry - something! I needed to do something! I needed to feel myself, understand myself and this horrible world we are all trapped in, where bugs and tumors and viruses worm their way into our brains and lay their putrid eggs that hatch and eat us alive from the inside out.
Garth Stein
#28. It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the-into the space.
Jim Lovell
#29. People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future and whatever happens to you after you die - it's all melted together. Death isn't the escape hatch the way it used to be.
Douglas Coupland
#30. Hatch opens
Stark light
the rupture begins
Sarah Kane
#31. What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.
Patrick F. McManus
#32. Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.
Paul Walker
#33. You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.
J. F. Lawton
#34. The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face.
Stephen Jay Gould
#35. The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
Mark Twain
#36. [I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.
Phyllis Schlafly
#37. The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.
Neil Armstrong
#38. Smuts are parasitic fungi that are often spread by pollinators and so, in the case of campions, pollinators pose the double threat of both laying eggs that will hatch into voracious larvae and giving the flower a nasty dose of the clap.
Dave Goulson
#39. Ideas come easily to me, enacting them comes harder. I usually let things go. Perhaps it's an escape hatch, my way of allowing myself to double back and ease out the side door on a lot of my schemes. Irresolute about my social life, obsessive in my work.
Kathy Reichs
#40. Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.
Alan Shepard
#42. Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat, and to keep them alive, just keep them cool.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
#44. You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Krivak slammed the hatch shut and waited for the depth gauge to show the ship coming shallow, listening to the other missile launches. What a beautiful sound, he thought. The fourth-launched Mark 98 Tigershark torpedo struggled to an angry consciousness, its
Michael DiMercurio
#46. When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away! ... we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!! ...
Bill Maher
#48. He spoke of dreams and never named the dreamer, of a glass candle that could not be lit and eggs that would not hatch. He said the sphinx was the riddle, not the riddler, whatever that meant.
George R R Martin
#49. If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.
Laurel Clark
#50. The truth is like a septic tank and the smell will eventually get out no matter how hard we tighten down the hatch.
George Sorbane
#51. Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
E.B. White
#52. Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Ted Rall
#53. Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.
Nancy Holmes
#54. Orrin Hatch is old enough to be my father, and I don't want my father running the United States Senate Finance Committee.
Scott Howell
#55. Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.
Peter Drucker
#56. Narcissism really spreads its wings and soars on twitter. It's like watching a dragon hatch and learn to fly.
Dave Anthony
#57. As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your life. The view completely blows you away. The real challenge is getting past the excitement and getting focused and down to work.
Thomas Marshburn
#58. Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.
Robert Graves
#59. Then I enter the crawlspace deep inside me and shut the hatch. Because I'm not coming back out. Ever.
Jandy Nelson
#60. He's 78 years old ... He's not the same Orrin Hatch I knew 12 years ago.
Scott Howell
#61. It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch - if the sun marked the end of the world and the chicken was an all-devouring demon.
- THE BOOK OF BRIN
Michael J. Sullivan
#62. Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world ... but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.
Tom McNeal
#63. My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
Jakob Dylan
#64. God never intended His Church to be a refrigerator in which to preserve perishable piety. He intended it to be an incubator in which to hatch out converts. - F. LINCICOME
Leonard Ravenhill
#65. Three of us will help the other two get suited up, get them in the hatch, and get them out the door.
Mark Kelly
#66. I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.
Michael Hyatt
#67. Hatch. I wouldn't risk another high-speed dock if we don't have to.
Orson Scott Card
#68. Thought folk were buried there?" "They are! And their treasures! So the dragon guards the hoard. That's what dragons do. Bury gold and you hatch a dragon, see?
Bernard Cornwell
#69. Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.
Julia Quinn
#70. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
William Shakespeare
#71. It is good the have a hatch before the durre.
John Heywood
#72. You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!
C.S. Lewis
#73. Stop abandoning your children. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race halfway through. Finishing is a good start. Stop looking for the escape hatch; pretend your work in progress just doesn't have one. 23.
Chuck Wendig
#74. Boobs," she mumbled around a second slice of pizza. "Boobs are huge now. I hate it. I feel like I'm incubating aliens and they're ready to hatch.
Maya Banks
#75. Where are the eggs of monsters most likely laid? What nest incubates them until they hatch? What are the toxic scraps that nourish them to adulthood?
James Patterson
#76. I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then talking them through these three spacewalks.
Mark Kelly
#77. This was not Hatch, her constant companion through the mouse hole. Nor was this the man who had methodically rescued her from a burning building. This was Hatcher, the murderer with the axe, the man who had been found covered in blood and surrounded by bodies.
Christina Henry
#78. When all three of us are safely out of the dock, shut the door and open the hatch. Sweat dripping into her eyes, she rushed back into the dock. All she needed was to get Scarlet and let Iko open the hatch. The vacuum of space
Marissa Meyer
#79. If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
any eggs in the basket
Bobby Robson
#80. After they hatch, they can get distracted by bright and artificial lights and instead of meeting their destiny, they are lured to their deaths.
Natasha Boyd
#81. A fine layer of ash had blown into the carport, showing a single set of cat prints going from the side of the house to the cat hatch built into my door. People in Minnesota see things like this with snow.
Robert Crais
#82. In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.
Mark Twain
#83. I would say that as a government employee, I am subject to the Hatch Act.
Scott Kelly
#84. I used to imagine the spider creeping down, crawling into my mouth, sliding down my throat, and laying loads of eggs in my belly. The Baby spiders would hatch after a while and eat me alive, from the inside out
Darren Shan
#85. the Russian engineers had taped, strapped and sealed our docking module's hatch just a little too enthusiastically, with multiple layers. So we did the true space-age thing: we broke into Mir using a Swiss Army knife. Never leave the planet without one. As
Chris Hadfield
#86. They are like pythons in the jungle. The smallest child can crush a python egg. But let the snake hatch and grow and the python with squeeze and devour the child.
Richard Paul Evans
#87. No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.
Mick Fleetwood
#88. Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.
Scott Howell
#89. By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.
Jill McCorkle
#90. The porter, meanwhile, unfastened the hatch in the wicket gate and peered out.
"Who dost knock without?" he growled.
The soldier, drenched and terrified though he was, hesitated.
"Without? Without what?" he said.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.
Maureen Johnson
#92. The venerable C.S. Lewis once said, in a way that he alone seemed to be able to say: "You cannot go on being a good egg forever, you must either hatch or rot!
Charles Thomas
#93. The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings.
Eugene Lim
#94. To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying
Ted Hughes
#95. I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would they put me in a padded cell and feed me through a hatch door? Would I end up in one of those places that you hear about, where people go in but never come out?
Sue Whitaker
#96. Well, let me go and wake Soap."
"Oh, no need to disturb him."
"Course there's need. Why do you think I was set to watch the hatch? Waiting on the ghost of boilers past? He'll box my ears if I don't tell him you came.
Gail Carriger
#97. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.
Richard Hatch
#98. Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the proper discrimination of what judges are supposed to do, and the rest of the process should reflect this judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#99. This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#100. I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.
Orrin Hatch
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