Catching Quotes (page 27)

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• fire
• house
• relieve

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. Wendell Berry

• real
• caring
• deep

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. Dylan Thomas

• animal
• attention
• possibilities

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention. E. B. White

• time
• times
• catching up

It was as if I'd already left some time before and was just catching up with myself. Richard Ford

• fire
• mean
• meanness

It means were on your side."-Bonnie in Catching Fire Suzanne Collins

• running
• learning
• manly

The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not... John Dos Passos

• him
• thinking
• manly

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. Oscar Wilde

• time
• responsibility
• die

What a dreadful surprise. For everyone knows, is absolutely certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But lets not talk about em eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you its too late isn't it? Ray Bradbury

• god
• fire
• useless

Their useless torches on dry hedges throw, That catch the flames, and kindle all the row; So burns the God, consuming in desire, And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire Ovid

• tomorrow
• waiting
• life

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. Margaret Mitchell

• life
• pain
• chance

A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark... Wislawa Szymborska

• danger
• holding
• might

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they? Richard Adams

• your life
• hard
• caring

What's not to love' is hardly a reason TO love. And the CATCH of your life is not the same thing as the LOVE of your life. Be careful on that subtle but rather crucial distinction. Emily Giffin

• week
• question
• whales

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week? Terry Prachett

• best
• observing
• some

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed."It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. Joseph Heller