Captured Quotes - Page 13

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Honore de Balzac

Women, Talking, Storm

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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
[Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]

Jean de La Fontaine

Fowl, Foxes

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The heavens and the earth may be captured by the mind's eye.

Gautama Buddha

Eye, Heaven, Mind

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There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

Agnes Repplier

Years, Octopus, Letters

Agnes Repplier (1908). “A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays”

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all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

Beryl Markham

Flying, Boards, Instruments

Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.

Lily Tomlin

Next Week, Cameras, Littles

"Lily Tomlin, actress & comedian". Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

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my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

Dorothy Allison

Book, Survival, Dying

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The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

Ashraf Dehghani

Done, Revolution, Made

"Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.

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My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

David Lynch

Beautiful, Moving, Unique

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Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

Andrew Lo

Simple, Psychological Disorders, Law

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When I first heard John Smith my attention was captured by his sweet, earthy voice and fine craftsmanship, but what drew me in was his heart. It's clear that he's lived the pain in his songs and that his optimism is hope born of wisdom. That's a rare thing and a gift to all who hear him.

Tom Kimmel

Song, Sweet, Pain

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A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

Jane Swisshelm

Stars, Children, Two

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In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me over my right to tell this story - as a woman or a foreigner. A people who cherish their culture and history and the films that have captured that culture.

Pietra Brettkelly

Careers, People, Culture

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Renzo Rosso

Parent, Feelings, Rebel

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Jim Grimsley

Art, Mind, Singers

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We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

Richard Wright

Iron, Ivory, Medicine

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...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.

David Berman

Hands, Magic, Signatures

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I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

Andre Dubus

Love You, Writing, Thinking

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People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

Mike Mills

People, Giving, Tickets

Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

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If I was being perfectly honest, which I'm not going to be, I think the movie touches on a lot of things that we all went through... the first kiss, which was more than a first kiss for Harry [Eden], and those electrifying moments when you're a teenager that form who you are as a human being. I think those, for me, are what Baillie captured so well.

Daniel Craig

Teenager, Kissing, Thinking

"Flashbacks Of A Fool - Daniel Craig interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.

Willie Morris

Mother, Growing Up, Emotional

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We can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

Jonathan Haidt

Lying, Goal, Joy

Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.84, Basic Books

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All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.

Margaret Atwood

Past, Stories, Care

Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he wears then is lost forever... The human mechanism is remarkably recuperative. A half hour later, the expressions are gone, the faces have changed. The mother with the dead baby in her arms does not look griefstruck anymore, no matter what she feels.

Horst Faas

Mother, Baby, Expression

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Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.

Kevin Bales

Slavery Today, People, Firsts

Source: bigthink.com

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