#catch

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfied #movies

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#complaint #first #first love #kind #love

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. ↗

— Alan Alda

#any #ate #blow #catch #could

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside? ↗

— Summer Altice

#eye #going #inside #look #magazine

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes. ↗

— Dusty Baker

#anybody #away #ball #because #big

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#boring #catch #disgusting #fish #fishing

My kids and I make pasta three days a week now. It's not even so much about the eating of it; they just like the process. Benno is the stuffer, and Leo is the catcher. They've got their jobs down. ↗

— Mario Batali

#catcher #days #down #eating #even

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#catch #him #hold #husband #job