take the quote vs catch the quote

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Take the quote' is commonly used when someone is asked to write down or remember a specific statement or passage, while 'catch the quote' is less common and could be used in a more informal setting to mean the same thing.

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take the quote

This phrase is correct and commonly used when someone is asked to write down or remember a specific statement or passage.

This phrase is used when someone is requested to record or remember a particular quote, statement, or passage.

Examples:

Can you take the quote from the book for me?
Make sure to take the quote accurately.
I need you to take the quote from the article.
She asked me to take the quote down.
He always takes the quote during meetings.

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Shall we take the quotes off experiment and call it what it was?
He said we should take the best quote about your band and put it outside.
Take the air-quotes out, and yes.
Take the air-quotes out, and yes.
But you will allow me, since this is part of the whole, to make some observations and take this opportunity to quote directly the small gems of arguments which the Commission uses to transfer payments between the different lines and transfer them towards external actions.
The quote starts as follows: 'Not Barroso, not Blair, but Mr van Alphen from the Netherlands, along with thousands of other national civil servants, takes the day-to-day decisions in Europe'.
The quote 1750 interpreter days paid but not used does not take into account the re-assignment of interpreters nor that a Delegation may be listening to interpretation without taking the floor.
The following quote from the Commission will suffice: Take the example of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
What was the quote? "... she shall take two turtledoves; one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering."
The quote shall be amended by the Agency if it appears that the task is simpler or can be carried out faster than initially foreseen or, on the contrary, if it is more complex and takes longer to carry out than the Agency could reasonably have foreseen.
Let me take the common agricultural policy as an example and quote what your report has to say, which strikes me as very instructive.
I take the liberty of recalling at this point the 1950 Schuman Declaration, and I quote, be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.
Click the row containing the quote you wish to remove.
The quote is from an article by Bob Starling.
I think it was the quote in my yearbook photo.
If I can remember the quote - ahe told everybody I had no wiener.
The quote was painted on a wall in red.
You're the one that recognized the quote.
Yes, I know the quote well.
Here's the quote from the Book of Malachi.

Alternatives:

Write down the quote
Remember the quote
Record the quote
Note the quote
Transcribe the quote

catch the quote

This phrase is correct but less common. It could be used in a more informal setting to mean the same thing as 'take the quote.'

This phrase can be used informally to mean the same as 'take the quote,' when someone is asked to write down or remember a specific statement or passage.