Quotes About Catch Up

#1. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.

Stephen Richards

#2. If you could forget who you think you are, you might catch up with who you really are and can't see.

Vincent Ferrini

#3. I was discovering a hard truth: There's no way to catch up on sleep. When it's gone, it's gone, and the best you can hope for is to have better luck next time.

David Van Etten

#4. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.

Anne Rice

#5. You'd better make friends with Time, because sooner or later it will catch up with you.

Eleanor Brownn

#6. He snorts more cocaine, I could pull over and roll him out the door, but he's on so much blow right now that he would probably just turn into a roadrunner, catch up to me, and jump back in.

Caroline Kepnes

#7. The attempt at introspective analysis ... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness.

William James

#8. don't get a Saturday where you can catch up. The sleep

Amy Poehler

#9. Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two.

Iona Opie

#10. Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

Thomas Keller

#11. And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool can be jumped up, but a fool can also be thrown down; and who is going to catch me then?

Philippa Gregory

#12. I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

Max Schmeling

#13. It's true," I admit. I put two fingers up to my throat to feel my pulse. "I've never trusted anybody to catch me.

Kim Wright

#14. I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

Sam Trammell

#15. Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.

Tom Jones

#16. I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

Richard Greenberg

#17. My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.

Gina Torres

#18. I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won't ever have to see his retreating back.

Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

#19. Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

Ernie J Zelinski

#20. You can't do that kind of thing normally, but normal dumped without a note nearly a month ago. These days, I'll happily set fire to a bridge the second after I've crossed it - I don't plan on being around for the consequences to catch up with me.

D.D. Barant

#21. What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

Warren Ellis

#22. I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.

Anna Sheehan

#23. He looks up at the sound of the gravel crunch on the driveway, and I catch a flash of impression, a reclusive animal surprised in his lair by the arrival of the hunters.

Ben H. Winters

#24. I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

Colin Dexter

#25. I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."
"But you didn't die," He says.
"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.

Courtney Summers

#26. Sometimes I wondered how long I would have to wait for the world to catch up to me. The rest of the time I was sure it never would.

Peter A. Smalley

#27. Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no cell phones and no one to talk to you. It's my favorite time. I read all my scripts. I catch up on my movies. I sleep. It's the best. There's no one telling you, "Time to go!"

Priyanka Chopra

#28. When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

Torii Hunter

#29. Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

Eugene Ormandy

#30. It was enough to see her face light up when we heard the sounds that told us my brother was come home, or to catch the sudden tenderness that came into is eyes when he looked at he, to realise the depth of the love that had grown between those two strange hearts.

Ahdaf Soueif

#31. How can we not still be rooting for the younger versions of ourselves as if they actually exist, playing catch-up in time? Who wouldn't like to implant their current brains into a scenario from the past?

Sloane Crosley

#32. All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

John Edgar Park

#33. When you know there's someone there to catch you or back you up, you're willing to walk out on a few more limbs.

T.A. Chase

#34. We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.

Diane Setterfield

#35. I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

Lorraine Toussaint

#36. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

Heather O'Neill

#37. The streets were more empty than usual - everyone who had someone was probably at home, cuddling them up, waiting for the bombs to fall or the shooting to start or the diseases to spread or just for the chips in their heads to catch viruses, melt, and drip out of their brains.

Mary Anne Mohanraj

#38. Only one man walked with that kind of impatience - as if he was waiting for the world to catch up to him.

Monica McCarty

#39. I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

Mike Duke

#40. I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

Rob Ford

#41. As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#42. My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

Elizabeth Edwards

#43. You can lie to yourself if you want, but reality is going to catch up with you. I'll be waiting when it does ... whether you like it or not.

Kody Keplinger

#44. In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk.

Roz Chast

#45. You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention.

Richard Holbrooke

#46. I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

Dusty Baker

#47. Without reply Joel made his way to follow Alex and the girls up to the lift. Swallowing a lump in my throat I grabbed my board and ran to catch up. I had a feeling that Joel was capable of turning even fun into work.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#48. When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.

Behdad Sami

#49. Office not required" isn't just the future - it's the present. Now is your chance to catch up.

Anonymous

#50. I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep.

Elizabeth Taylor

#51. The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

Daniel Radcliffe

#52. I am
Opposite of weak
Opposite of slack
Synonym of heat
Synonym of crack
Closest to the peak
Far from a punk
Y'all ought to stop talking
And start trying to catch up

Mike Shinoda

#53. There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

Herman Kahn

#54. But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to catch a breath. Perhaps that was good. Because if he stopped and took the time to think about things too deeply, dark thoughts started to intrude.

Brian Falkner

#55. I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I'm very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention.

Kellan Lutz

#56. Oh, sure. Let me just ask my geek brother to stop slaying zombie ninjas for a few hours so I can borrow the PC and catch up on my Victorian horror lit.

Kelly Creagh

#57. First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.

Helen Simpson

#58. I don't believe in taking much of a divot, especially with the longer irons. You want to barely comb the grass through impact. It's the only way to catch the ball on the second groove up from the bottom of the clubface. That's where you want to make contact: on the second groove.

Moe Norman

#59. Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

Chogyam Trungpa

#60. Bright Idea #91: When the weather's bad and your lights go out, have a pajama party. Eat till you feel sick, hula-hoop, paint your faces. Catch fireflies, and dance naked in the rain. If you do, then your bare butt will light up like a firefly after it's been let out of a jar.

Sandra Kring

#61. But sometimes you have to make a decision with your heart instead of your head, and that's what I did. I know I've made the right decision even if it takes my brain a little while to catch up to my heart.

Marie Landry

#62. Somewhere he can shelter,' he said, whispering and wheezing a bit, but not slowing for a second. 'Somewhere he can get warm, and where no one can find him. Don't mess it up, Barney. This boy is falling. You must catch him.

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

#63. Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Red Auerbach

#64. I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

David Suchet

#65. I waited a decade," she said. "And then I waited some more. I've waited enough. It's your turn to catch up.

J.M. Darhower

#66. I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.

James Frey

#67. We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

Ezra Taft Benson

#68. We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

Rick Santelli

#69. Learn to pause...or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

Doug King

#70. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Confucius

#71. I was black and blue for about two years, but it's paid off tremendously. You know, if you get enough whacks, your reflexes pick up, and I've become quite good - if somebody throws keys or something, I can catch them.

Lucy Lawless

#72. Maybe we shouldn't be living this way, without grass and trees, and ducks, always under pressure, always trying to catch up, never enough time or energy for the things we love, if we can even remember what those things are.

Meg Rosoff

#73. The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Susan Sontag

#74. Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here. We'll always make time to sit and catch up properly.

Emma Thompson

#75. A few minutes passed, and Thomas felt the long day finally catch up to him, the leaded edge of sleep
crossing over his mind. But - like a fist had shoved it in his brain and let go - a thought popped into his
head. One that he didn't expect, and he wasn't sure from where it came.

James Dashner

#76. I'm always up for a game of chase, but I have a feeling that, once I catch her, she isn't the type of woman who will easily be cast aside. No, Sidney O'Neil is the kind of woman you want in your bed every night, not just once.

A.S. Teague

#77. It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

Lisa Williams

#78. When I have spare time, I catch up on things I've had to postpone due to lack of time.

Steve Wozniak

#79. Time's Flying," said Dad. He Smiled. He pointed to the air. "There it is, flying past! Catch it!" And he jumped, and caught Time in his hands, and showed it to Lizzie. She took it from him, and threw it up again.
"There it goes," she called. "Bye-bye. Bye-bye, Time!

David Almond

#80. For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

Larry Clark

#81. Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#82. Wherever Sarren went, whatever forgotten corner of the country he fled to, I wouldn't be far behind. No matter what he did, no matter how far or fast he ran, I would catch up to him, and then he would pay for what he had done.

Julie Kagawa

#83. For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

Lynn Jurich

#84. They say that Grandma Moses had several canvases going at the same time. Maybe it was a way for her to catch up with the time she missed while raising children and tending the farm. Like Grandma, I tend to have more than one poem or fiction going at a time. For me, it's just the way I think.

Marge Simon

#85. They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them.

Ken Kesey

#86. Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.

Louis Oosthuizen

#87. Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Mike Hawkins

#88. We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

Mary Parker Follett

#89. You'll find i-poetry, you'll find that you can download poetry, that you can stuff your i-pod with recorded poetry. So just to answer the question that way, I think that poetry is gonna catch up with that technology quite soon.

Billy Collins

#90. It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

Jeff Cooper

#91. in my dreams i know what
to do with my hands.

i do not lock them up in a
cardboard box. i do not lock
myself up
in a paper house too ready to catch on fire.

Darshana Suresh

#92. I actually don't watch much TV, but my goal is to watch 'Downton Abbey.' I want to catch up on the series ... that's like my style.

Kelly Rutherford

#93. You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

Natsuki Takaya

#94. There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Irwin Redlener

#95. We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

Robbie Fowler

#96. The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

Howie Carr

#97. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.

Jeanette Winterson

#98. Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

Ryan Lochte

#99. Ruby: Oh, you know ... you wait and wait for years for him until you finally give up and move on with your life. You eventually decide to marry Greg and weeks later, Alex splits up with Sally. You know, you two have the worst timing ever. When will you ever learn to catch up with each other?

Cecelia Ahern

#100. Drizzt turned and tried to catch him, but the huge man bowled the drow over and continued on. Face first into a tree. Before Drizzt could get over to help, Wulfgar was up again and running, too scared and embarrassed, to even groan.

R.A. Salvatore