Catch Quotes
2066 quotes by 1511 authors
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Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that…
— Francis Schaeffer
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This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him…
— Emily Giffin
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I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will…
— Mindy Kaling
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I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never…
— Malcolm X
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In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
— Lewis Carroll
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Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak…
— Paul Auster
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Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have…
— Agatha Christie
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no one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it,
— Abbi Glines
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When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when…
— Mark Twain
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Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems…
— Rachel Cohn
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
— Ralph Ellison
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
— Lev Grossman
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…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting…
— Sylvia Plath
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,…
— Walter Mosley
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I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order…
— Jeff Lindsay
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So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a…
— John Green
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I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line,…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Do you hurt uncle Kisten', he asked.(...) but Kisten beat me to it. “Only my heart, Audric,†he said. “Ms. Rachel is like the sun.…
— Kim Harrison
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