Catching Quotes

so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

There is nothing so catching as refinement.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

I always describe writing a story as throwing bowling pins in the air and then catching them.

Most cats feel that bird-catching is their duty; the instinct goes back to prehistoric times. Amber keeps in practice by chasing moths.

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.

Time runs and flows and only our death succeeds in catching up with it. Photography is a blade which, in eternity, impales the dazzling moment.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Frog catching is the most fun a human being can have while on this earth.

I think more and more young people are catching on when it comes to certain healthy behaviors, much more than I did when I was younger.

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies.

Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

"You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment."

Sam looked at me, yellow eyes catching and holding me. "I miss being me. I miss you. All the time.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

Playing in the rain is worth catching cold.

There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

My passion for maternal and child health led me to continue my studies and pursue the path of midwifery. And here I am now... still catching babies.

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

For me, we've been singing diversity in movies for 16 years, so it's just beautiful to see the rest of the world finally catching on and they're making it a point to do it.