Capes Quotes - Page 5

• There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Marine, Numbers

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Broken, Earth

  "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas". Book by Abby Sunderland and Lynn Vincent, 2011.

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• 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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• My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape.

  Louis Bacon

  Mother, Children, Garden

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• I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.

  Betsy King

  Dog, Beach, Joy

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• Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

  Tahir Shah

  Struggle, Adversity, Air

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• He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

  Herman Melville

  Danger, Horns, Prudence

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• I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Sports, Taken, Years

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• Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

  Danny Glover

  Years, White, Creating

  "Black power mixtape co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 2012.

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Air

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• Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Real, Men

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• The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fishing, Complaining, Dry

  Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.206

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• My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Cousin, Uncles, Kids

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• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Robert Towne

  Past, California, Towns

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• I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!

  Amber Rose

  Blessed, Grandfather, Skins

  "Amber Rose's Singular Look" by Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Tier on tier of beautiful mountains and streams Blue green vistas locked in white clouds The mist makes my bandana wet Dew coats my grass cape My feet climb in straw sandals My hand holds an old wooden stick When I gaze down again on the dusty world It has become a land of phantoms and dreams to me

  Hanshan

  Beautiful, Dream, Clouds

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• Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Mom, Kids, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Blood, Vision, Cairo

  Source: pneumareview.com

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• There are these fantasies among people who watch movies where they're like, "Oh, there's a chemistry between them - something going on." And sometimes there is. But for me, it's more like, I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Home, Play

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Home, Play

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed.

  Kesha

  Attitude, Keith, Obsessed

  "Ke$ha: There's a Real Girl Underneath All That Glitter". Interview with Logan Hill, www.glamour.com. February 2, 2012.

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• And sometimes it's fun to be the guy who just really enjoys it, like the guy I'm playing now on The Cape. He's more that. He's much more flashy and debonaire and devil may care-ish. He just loves doing bad in the world. That's real fun to do.

  James Frain

  Fun, Real, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate towards.

  Louis Leterrier

  Superhero, Greek, Tights

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember the first time I had sex. I wore a cape and goggles... because I didn't know.

  Eugene Mirman

  Sex, Goggles, Firsts

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