Pounce Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows… — Hans Zinsser
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce. — John Gardner
It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane. — Prentice Marshall
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to… — Quentin Crisp
Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude… — Josef Pieper
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very… — Vera Nazarian
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss… — Barbara Kingsolver
do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation — Vladimir Nabokov
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it,… — Kevin Brockmeier
I stared at the river far below. "Why did you park us on the mountain? Why not closer?" Bast shrugged, as if this hadn't occurred… — Rick Riordan
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught… — Tamora Pierce
They are presented attractively for the same reason that kittens are cute - so that they can draw you in, then pounce on you for… — Brandon Sanderson
If her rump were any stiffer, she'd break it every time she rides', I thought to Pounce. 'If she fell on the steps, they would… — Tamora Pierce
Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything." "There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to… — Brandon Mull
The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't… — D. H. Lawrence
I think one of the coolest things you can do is disappear for a while, because it gives you the chance to re-emerge. To sort… — Josh Homme
With our industry being watched so carefully by governmental agencies, with the FTC ready to pounce on every claim we make, what we CAN say… — William Bernbach

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