Caption Quotes - Page 2

• The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Men, Eagles, Giving

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• I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay. Apparently the prerequisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay.' I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected.

  Jonathan Knight

  Gay, Magazines, Lgbt

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• There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Makeup, Hair

  "Emilia Clarke: Daenerys is empowering". sg.news.yahoo.com. July 1, 2015.

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• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  Vinton Cerf

  Web Content, Overcoming, Different

  "Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled" by Judy Heim, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2000.

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• He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU! and A BOY-FREE TOMORROW! "I found that in Annabeth's backpack," Grover said. I stared at him. "I don't understand." "Well, it seems to me… maybe Annabeth was thinking about joining." I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Mean, Boys

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• I have a lot of respect for advertising. If I didn't teach and could go back in time, I might try and become a copywriter. I especially like print ads that combine a photo with a short caption or tag line.

  Elaine Equi

  Trying, Lines, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

  Ben Katchor

  Good Luck, Knowing, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A picture, of Jock Semple kissed me,appeared in The New York Times the next day after Boston Marathon in 1973, and the caption was "The end of an era."

  Kathrine Switzer

  New York, Next Day, Boston

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• I don't know how many days I worked there [on Star Wars]. The thing I do remember was I somehow got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog. It was Jim Henson's space, with this Kermit the Frog sign. I took a photo of it and sent it to my mom with a caption that read, "Look, Mom. I made it. I got a parking space next to Kermit the Frog." I was always fascinated by the film-set infrastructures.

  John Ratzenberger

  Mom, Stars, War

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos in the newspapers... I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them... You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them, and that's roughly what was being done.

  John Heartfield

  Lying, People, Titles

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• If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.

  Errol Morris

  Needs, Want, Way

  "Photography as a Weapon". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 11, 2008.

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• All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

  Errol Morris

  World, Language, Photograph

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• All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Airports, Years, People

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• Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other.

  Robert Mankoff

  Couple, Thinking, Talking

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.

  Errol Morris

  Horse, True Or False, Elements

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

  Walter Benjamin

  Use, Demand, Photographer

  Walter Benjamin (2003). “Understanding Brecht (New Edition)”, p.95, Verso

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