Capture Quotes

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Henry A. Wallace

Men, Hype, Political

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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Reality, Joy

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On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

Bobby Seale

Gun, Hands, People

"Black Panther Co-Founder Bobby Seale condemns Boston terrorism in exclusive interview". Interview with Alan Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. April 22, 2013.

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You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Andrew Carnegie

Loyalty, Heart, Men

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Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Eminem

Motivational, Opportunity, Looks

Song: Lose Yourself

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Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

Dick Dale

Play, Sound, Kind

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As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Jacques Lacan

Lines, May, Dimensions

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So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that.

Steve Irwin

Team, Boys, Gone

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I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Neil Finn

Struggle, Order, Difficult Situations

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I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

Beauty Of Life

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Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

Writing, Effort, Quality

"Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane. Chapter 1, 1935.

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Theodore Bikel

Art, Past, Heirlooms

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The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, Reality, Want

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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Irvine Welsh

Music, House, Way

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Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Wind, Rainbow, Shadow

Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.10, Conari Press

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Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

Pete du Pont

Strong, Jobs, Giving

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Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

Brian De Palma

Shooting, Able, Stuff

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My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

Steve Irwin

Passion, Television, Enthusiasm

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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne

Wisdom, Passion, Heart

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Andrea Dworkin

Practice, Abduction, Use

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If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

David Petraeus

Country, Guy, Want

"Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 15, 2010.

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Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

Joan Armatrading

Inspiration

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A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

Virginia Foxx

Believe, Attention, May

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It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

David Korten

America, People, Imagination

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Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Life, Encouraging, Uplifting

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