Capers Quotes

• Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

  Nora Ephron

  Food, People, Taste

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Nov 26, 2015

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• Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

  Noel Gallagher

  Kings, Destiny, People

  "Song: Go Let It Out (Standing on the Shoulder of Giants)". February 7, 2000.

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• Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Courage, Teenager, Writing

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Running, Strange

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [53]

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Stupidity, Strange

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.393

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• Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Dancing, Devil, Helping

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• Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Poetry, World

  A Defence of Poetry (written 1821) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Twain 104

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• If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

  Bruce Sterling

  Wise, Play, Ideas

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• Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Special, Routine, Crime

  FaceBook post by Carl Hiaasen from Jan 07, 2015

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• There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.

  Bob Goff

  Cute, Running, Differences

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• Being a journalist, I never feel bad talking to journalism students because it’s a grand, grand caper. You get to leave, go talk to strangers, ask them anything, come back, type up their stories, edit the tape. That’s not gonna retire your loans as quickly as it should, and it’s not going to turn you into a person who’s worried about what kind of car they should buy, but that’s kind of as it should be. I mean, it beats working.

  David

  Mean, Talking, Car

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• That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.

  Jake Halpern

  Crazy, Regulation, Absence

  "Inside the Bizarre, Unregulated World of Debt Collection". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2014.

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• I was a poet too; but modern taste
  Is so refined and delicate and chaste,
  That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,
  Without a creamy smoothness has no charms.
  Thus, all success depending on an ear,
  And thinking I might purchase it too dear,
  If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound,
  And truth cut short to make a period round,
  I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse
  Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.

  William Cowper

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  William Cowper (1830). “Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]”, p.14

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• When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

  Laurence Shames

  Stories, Speak, Lennon

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
  of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
  Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
  useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Boredom, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
  And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
  To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
  He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
  To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Soul

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

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• The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And when people start talking about the reviews from the stage. That to me is really self indulgent and we tried to put a caper on that.

  Scott Aukerman

  Running, Self, Talking

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

  Alan Bradley

  Self, Two, Laughing

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.488, Delacorte Press

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• The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Riding, London

  Source: bigthink.com

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• For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Fun, Military, Book

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.

  Herman Wouk

  War, Wind, Mutiny

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• Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it.

  Nicholas Stoller

  People, Important, Jason

  Source: collider.com

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• I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

  China Mieville

  Cutting, Dancing, Mad

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• I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Knives, Doors, Kicking

  Source: www.gq.com

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