Quotes with catching

  • There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
  • The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

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  • Bill Engvall (mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) Hey... (cracks) You paid to see it... hey... Ever eaten a worm? (2nd fish) What? When did you eat a worm? Oh I was on the riverbank... catching my breath... - thank you, those of you who got that...
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Annie Dillard A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bruce Cockburn Catching the light and falling into dark
    And the world fades out like an overheard remark...
    In the falling dark
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    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Henry James Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Dave Barry If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • John Jay Chapman People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anthony Trollope There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bjork We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Fuller Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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