Quotes with catch

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  • Bryan Brown I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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  • Busta Rhymes I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton I'm not a vegetarian by any means; I eat fish. But the problem with shark finning is they catch the shark, cut their fins and throw them back in the ocean, and to me, that's wrong. If you're going to kill an animal, you should use the entire animal and do it humanely. I'm definitely not a big fan.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Nikita Khrushchev If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Billy Beane In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Candice Glover In every interview, when they would ask me who should be a judge, I would always say Harry Connick, Jr., so I think I had something to do with him becoming a judge! He has a blunt, dry sense of humor. You never know if he's joking or not, and I think that's going to catch a lot of people by surprise.
    Candice Glover
    American R&B singer and actress (1989 - )
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  • William James Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • John Malkovich It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
    John Malkovich
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Camille Paglia Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
    As quoted in The Quotable Bitch: Women Who Tell It Like It Really Is (2007)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • James Thurber Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Billy Williams Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bob Schieffer My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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