#catch

They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#conversation #hope #movies #pop-culture #tv-shows

I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#catcher-in-the-rye #inspirational #inspirational

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#devil #forever #hair #his #single

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth. ↗

— Betty Cuthbert

#catch #did #effort #even #everything

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. ↗

— Colin Dexter

#correspondence #day #every #every day #home

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' ↗

— Bill Dickey

#catch #catcher #day #did #every

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition. ↗

— John Doolittle

#ago #been #bill #catch #end

I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain. ↗

— Laurent Jalabert

#drop #felt #goal #him #i

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day, we have a lot of catching up to do. ↗

— Heather King

#catching #children #day #five #hundred

I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. ↗

— Ivan Lendl

#dangerous #granted #guy #hard #hard work