Chase

Famous quotes containing the word chase:

    We like the chase better than the quarry.... And those who philosophize on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending a whole day in chasing a hare which they would not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase, which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.
    Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.
    —Ilka Chase (1905–1978)

    Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain’t gonna take a man’s only set of teeth, are ya?
    Quo: Uh huh.
    Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use ‘em for eatin’.
    Quo: Come grub you get ‘em.
    Groot: Whad ya’ gonna do with ‘em?
    Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.
    —Borden Chase [Frank Fowler] (1900–1971)