(1293 quotes found)
“I fully understand the Catch-22 with getting an agent: Agents want someone who's published before, but how can a person get published without an agent? As hard as it is, it happens all the time. All successful writers were once in the same boat you are, but they found a way to do it.”
Nicholas Sparks
“I could catch a monkey. If I was starving I could. I?d make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you?d be dead within a day. Or longer. Different frogs, different times.”
Mackenzie Crook
“The catch phrase positively rejoices in being a formula, an accepted gambit, a ready-made reaction.”
John Gross
“I turn on my computer. I wait patiently as it connects. I go online. My breath catches in my chest until I hear 3 little words, "You've got mail." I hear nothing, not a sound on the streets of New York. Just the beat of my own heart. I have mail...from you.”
You've got mail
“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.”
Michael Nolan
“Come away; poverty's catching”
Aphra Behn
“Catch Me When I Fall.”
Ashlee Simpson
“They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.”
Willie Mays
“First catch your hare, then cook it”
Proverb
“They all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gun powder ran out at the heels of their boots.”
Samuel Foote