Address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952)
“If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.”
“No, I don't learn the basket catch from Mays”
As quoted and paraphrased in "Perfect Record With 'Basket Catch' Says Bob Clemente" http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/41874494/ by John Carroll (UP), in The Connellsville Daily Courier (Tuesday, May 7, 1957), p. 8
Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1957</big>
Context: "No, I don't learn the basket catch from Mays," Roberto protested in his marked Puerto Rican accent. "It was Luis Olmo and Herman Franks who teach me when I in Dodger chain. That back in 1954 Winter league. Before that, I miss fly ball many time 'cause I try to catch too high. But now no drop one ball since I use basket catch." Clemente said Olmo and Franks instructed him to catch the ball about chest high instead of holding his hands outstretched. Later, he said, It became more natural for him to drop his hands even lower, below his waistline. "It work good for me and I juss keep doing it," he said. "It make it more easy for me to throw too, after I make catch."
“Aucupia verborum sunt judice indigna: Catching at words is unworthy of a Judge.”
Lord Hobart's Rep. 343.
Sheffield v. Ratcliffe (1615)
Catch-22 (1961)
Context: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
“Stay around for me. Out do everyone. Sometimes I catch them. Stay around for me.”
Farmer Vs. River
Song lyrics
As quoted in Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy (1994), p. 201.
Attributions
“I'll catch you angel, i'll always catch you.”
Source: Reflected in You
“This ogress will want to catch two beans with one pigeon.”
Act II., Scene II. — (Golpe).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 393.
La Trinuzia (published 1549)
