Caught Quotes
1906 Caught quotes by 1380 unique authors
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The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his…
— Roald Dahl
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In your walks about London you will sometimes see bent, haggard figures that look as if they had recently been caught in some powerful machinery.…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love…
— Robert Hass
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes…
— Lorrie Moore
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Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
— Margaret Mitchell
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend…
— Anais Nin
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
— Woody Allen
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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want…
— Terry Pratchett
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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in…
— John Steinbeck
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All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when…
— Diane Setterfield
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Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you…
— Frank Herbert
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Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,…
— Victor Hugo
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You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught…
— Gustave Flaubert
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what…
— Paul Auster
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(Ravic speaking of a butterfly caught in the Louvre) In the morning it would search for flowers and life and the light honey of blossoms…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men…
— Marcel Proust
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Mr. Fresh looked up. "The book says if we don't do our jobs everything could go dark, become like the Underworld. I don't know what…
— Christopher Moore
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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
— Douglas Adams
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.
— Gregory Maguire
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