Famous quotes containing the words catch and/or fire:
“Its easier to go up into the mountains to catch tigers than to ask others for help.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Gradually I regained my usual composure. I reread Pale Fire more carefully. I liked it better when expecting less. And what was that? What was that dim distant music, those vestiges of color in the air? Here and there I discovered in it and especially, especially in the invaluable variants, echoes and spangles of my mind, a long ripplewake of my glory.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)