Capes Quotes - Page 4

• I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

  Rory Bremner

  Cities, Voice, Tables

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• It was in Australia. I started in Cairns and went up to Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and then went to Fraser Island. It was there that I thought was quite heavenly. I just decided to go back packing somewhere and that's where I picked. It was just before I got the role in Hot Chick. A friend wanted to me to go to Australia and I was thinking my career is just starting, it's not a good time to leave but she told me that my career would always be there and I was only going to get more immersed in it, and she was right. So it was a good time to go.

  Rachel McAdams

  Thinking, Islands, Careers

  Source: thefancarpet.com

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• I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal skin, who could kill you with their eyes. I fought CoreFire to a standstill, and the Super Squadron, and the Champions. Now I have to shuffle through a cafeteria line with men who tried to pass bad checks. Now I have to wonder if there will be chocolate milk in the dispenser. And whether the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could do with his life.

  Austin Grossman

  Eye, Men, Champion

  "Unconventional Education Fuels Author's First Novel". Interview with James Hattori, www.npr.org. October 14, 2007.

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• Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.

  Marianne Moore

  Yogi, Missiles, Handle

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.222, Penguin

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• When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Kids, Littles, Imagine

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Falling In Love, Hunting, Hands

  "How Trump's son's passion for hunting is shaping search for Interior secretary" By Tal Kopan, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2016.

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• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  K. Sello Duiker

  Culture, Towns, Used

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• Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Growing Up, Dad

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, February 4, 2003.

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• When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Running, Kids, Red

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But of course we are not allowed to know for sure. In close and direct imitation of his apartheid models, Selebi ensures that no statistics about crime may be published regularly in the press.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Soccer, May, Statistics

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• It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.

  Joan Bauer

  Wearing Black, People, Guy

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Sailor, Dangerous

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.40, Vintage

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• Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida

  Tite Kubo

  Bleach, Importance

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• When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Growing Up, Hair

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• Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take

  Nicki Minaj

  Determination, Goes On, World

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• Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age

  Nizar Qabbani

  Soul, Tragedy, Stones

  Nizar Qabbani, “Verse”

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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Weather, Two, Sailing

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter.

  Sara Shepard

  Past, Style, Vampire

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• I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

  Doris Lessing

  Daughter, Two, Towns

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• If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.

  Therese Anne Fowler

  Ocean, Ice, Rivers

  Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.274, Macmillan

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• I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Simple, Scotland, Alps

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• Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.

  Austin Grossman

  Social, Social Life

  Austin Grossman (2007). “Soon I Will Be Invincible: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage

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• I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing

  Andrea Gibson

  Believe, Fall, Heart

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