Catching On Quotes

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.

That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.

The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

This is no place for a girl on fire.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.

I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.

When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that creates worlds, a huge vortex comes into place, and there's just not enough action for you to keep up with that. And so, what you have to do is visualize every step of the way, envision you happy in the process. Envision things in place, envision people catching on. Just envision it working. Skip over the how and the where and the when and the who - and just stay focused upon the what and the why. Abraham

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

I like vinyl because it's not quite random access. You have to pick up the needle, flip the record. I do think that an 18-20 minute block of music is sacred, and I can see why it's catching on. I really don't know if it will stay, but it's such a bizarre world, I think it's possible.

Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

How does Parker’s body compare with yours ” Great. A pop quiz I thought recognizing his transition into lecture mode. “How does Parker’s body compare with mine Hmm.” I gave Parker a quick theatrical once-over and he smiled clearly catching on to my line of thought. “Nice legs and killer biceps. But I have better boobs. No question.

I think more and more young people are catching on when it comes to certain healthy behaviors, much more than I did when I was younger.