Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jordan

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

Robert Jordan

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Robert K. Massie

The cat does not negotiate with the mouse.

William E. Conway, Jr.

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

Wendell Pierce

A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.

Young Jeezy

I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.

Young Jeezy

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Young Jeezy

My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.

Wynton Marsalis

You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.

Jaret Wright

Playing catch for the first day, I didn't really feel it at all. I think I'm headed in the right direction.

Playing catcher wore me out last year. I wouldn't mind still playing, but as long as I'm in the lineup and helping the team.

(Pickford) did a good job and we're real pleased with the way she has evolved. Her mental side is starting to catch up after a rough start. It was just a mental thing for her, she just had a hard time getting her step off and couldn't get her foot to land at the specific place.

Regardless of what happens, we must keep up this tempo of major operations to catch Mladic.

Robert Horry

Records are always going to be broken; I'm sure someone wanted to see him catch Wilt.

Patch Tuesday. Because it is quiet, it does give people an opportunity to catch up and make sure they are protected.

Alain Vigneault

Part of gearing up for the playoffs is playing well. So we lost that game. We've got five more to play and if we catch up, we catch up. If we don't, we'll be third and finish from there.

Pasco was not feeling well, and he wasn't himself. But we got some good looks with our other guards and we didn't make them, especially early on in the game. We took some shots and we missed them. Our confidence went down and we decided that we were just going to play catch instead of stepping in and taking an open shot.

Our law enforcement has a lousy record of catching these people. Unfortunately, I think the message you can take away from these indictments is that you can get away with these kind of crimes for a long time.

In years past, we'd get a big lead, shut down and let the other team catch up. We didn't quit, and that's the kind of effort we'll need all year.

Gary Green

In the second game you could start to see our guys catch up with the pitching.

In terms of a national security risk, it's a very serious situation. The cat is out of the bag. There are so many ways to get at information electronically.

Internets are the most volatile stocks. They're like trying to catch a butterfly.

I really didn't see it as overshadowing me, ... He's been in the league so long. He's earned his stripes. I was a young cat coming up, doing the things I had to do to earn my stripes. I made my plays. As the years moved on, I earned my stripes. The fans knew who I was when I stepped on the field. When you play next to Ray, you have to do a lot of things to get noticed.

If you start thinking about the numbers, that can catch up to you pretty quick.

Thomas Hood

If you were queen of bloaters / And I were king of soles, / The sea we'd wag our fins in. / Nor heed the crooked pins in / The water, dropped by boaters / To catch our heedless joles.

In My Life really offers people a chance to laugh and to cryand it's better than Cats .

I guess they don't want it to flare up. (But) everything's a big deal. You don't want it to catch you by surprise.

I had a home at Murphy's. John Murphy told me I could work there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and not catch up.

Abbas Kiarostami

If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it - but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.

If you got behind, it was virtually impossible to catch them. I think the Americans played unbelievable golf.

If you've been lax with your hurricane preparations, now's a really good time to catch up.

Martin Millar

If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something.