Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

The cattle are grazing,Their heads never raising;There are forty feeding like one!

The cats that drive the mice away are as good as they that catch them

Andrew Greeley

The Catholic imagination is metaphorical or sacramental. It sees God as present in the world. The Protestant imagination, the dialectical imagination, wants to preserve God from the possibility of idolatry by identifying with His creatures. Catholicism has no problem with that.

The flu shot is very good at reducing the risk of catching the flu. If you're already exposed to it, it can't stop you from getting the flu, but it may make it a milder case.

The food won't go far, and you have to catch it in the air, because it won't hit the floor. But it's really kind of a mess, and you have to be careful. You don't want something floating around, because it's not like on the ground where something hits the floor. In three dimensions, it's an order of magnitude worse.

Carl Sandburg

The fog comes/ on little cat feet./ It sits looking over/ harbor and city/ on silent haunches/ and then moves on.

Lowell Thomas

In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."

Louis MacNeice

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

John Ciardi

The thing about cats as you might find, is that no one knows what they have in mind.

John Bright

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

You could throw a cat through the cracks.

Pat Onstad

You could feel the electricity tonight from the moment you walked out of the locker room, it was an important game for us. The last thing we wanted to do was let L.A. back into the chase with us. We knew that getting three points from them would make it difficult for them to catch us, so we accomplished what we wanted to.

You could be playing catch with somebody on the side ? one of the managers ? and you drop the ball, we're going to be running on the sideline after practice.

You can't give up 28 points in the first five minutes (sic). Ultimately with a lot of teams, speed is going to catch us, especially on the edges. We've got some young kids. Ultimately, they got us on the edges. You can't run on the middle of the defense.

Billy Joel

You Catholic girls start much too late But sooner or later it comes down to fate I might as well be the one.

Susan Fletcher

You catch them doing something right, you notice and you mention it. So they can see and decide for themselves that it feels better to be told something good.

Ron Wilson

You catch him looking over his shoulder saying, 'Wow', and you go from there.

Roger Clemens

You catch a lot of the younger players, just like I did when I was young, they listen a lot try and pick up on things that will help them down the road.

David Spade

You catch all the '80s hits without any of 'the stuff from the new album,'

Chipper Jones

You can't print what I said, but they have to catch us.

You can't press to catch up. They're too smart.

You can run away from your problems for only so long before they start catching up with you.

George Will

You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

Janica Kostelic

You can't be a winner every time. This hill isn't suited to me because it's so flat, and I had trouble with the light. So my main goal after I was sixth in the first run was to defend that position and I'm pretty satisfied that I did that. I wanted to make sure to catch 30 or 40 points.

The kid is tough. He's a good catcher already and I think he's going to be a good player.

The true catalyst for Microsoft is Longhorn and that is some time away.

The truck was a big catalyst for that.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Cats are so interesting - endlessly fascinating.

Round, cat-eye frames, wayfarers, and aviators are my go-tos.

J. L. Austin

There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

J. Michael Straczynski

The universe considers me its personal cat toy.

J. K. Rowling

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

H. L. Mencken

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.