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Quotes About Cape

They saw white Brutality enough, at the Cape of Good Hope. They can no better understand it now, than then. Something is eluding them. Whites in both places are become the very Savages of their own worst Dreams, far out of Measure to any Provocation.
~ Thomas Pynchon
For my sins and because I discovered a wunch of bankers suffering from the syndrome to which we've assigned the keyword OPERA CAPE, I have been seconded to the shiny new exploration phase of DRESDEN RICE, and if you think that code name sounds like it has something to do with the V-word, have a cigar.
~ Charles Stross
Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts. The shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown.
~ Thoreau Hd
some guy had an impressively realistic skeleton costume under his Inverness cape and deerstalker, and a nametag that said Sherlock Bones.
~ Toni L.P. Kelner
'The Cape' is a really good comic! They invented the whole character, and now they've built a book of 'The Cape' for the show. When I was a kid, I used to love Batman, and I loved Spider-Man. My favorite was this guy called Judge Dredd. I know they made a movie of that in the '90s.
~ James Frain
The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.
~ Riaad Moosa
Cruel Prince James strode into the chamber, his cape flashing behind him and his terrible, terrible mustache askew with rage," Lucie narrated the moment James walked through the door. "Does it need be said twice that it's terrible?" James said. "He required a hot beverage to soothe his throat, parched from barking out his wicked commands all day. Tea, he thought, yes, tea and revenge." "I'll just go put the kettle on," James sighed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Turjan closed the book, forcing the spell back into oblivion. He robed himself with a short blue cape, tucked a blade into his belt, fitted the amulet holding Laccodel's Rune to his wrist. Then he sat down and from a journal chose the spells he would take with him. What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spray, Phandaal's Mantle of Stealth, and the Spell of the Slow Hour.
~ Jack Vance
I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
~ Victor LaValle
What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.
~ Jeph Loeb
Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.
~ Adam West
Hemos enterrado a Cercamón en la punta del cabo, junto a la ermita. Allí donde la tierra se acaba. El juglar más viajero del gremio no podía descansar en otro lugar. Mattius nomrespondió.
~ Laura Gallego García
Prince Henry sent no less than fourteen expeditions to Cape Bojador within twelve years
~ Laurence Bergreen
In 1488, during the reign of João II, Bartolomeu Dias reached the southernmost point of Africa and rounded what is now known as the Cape of Good Hope;
~ Laurence Bergreen
cape which we discovered before this spit is called the Cape of the [Eleven Thousand] Virgins
~ Laurence Bergreen
rising approximately 130 feet from the water. A later explorer described the cape as "three great mountains of sand that look like islands
~ Laurence Bergreen
we found by miracle a strait which we called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins.
~ Laurence Bergreen
For the better part of my childhood, my professional aspirations were simple—I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. I didn't care much about ruling hordes of space people. Mostly I wanted to wear the cape and the sexy boots and carry a cool weapon.
~ Janet Evanovich
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
geologist. 'Thank you, gentlemen. Now let us get out of this nasty wind. We will have time to become better acquainted later.' Her voice was soft, almost lilting, but the inflexion was sharp and clearly Southern African. Hector knew that she had been born in Cape Town and had only taken up US citizenship after she married Henry Bannock. Bert Simpson opened the passenger door of the Hummvee
~ Wilbur Smith
They found my husband with his feet treading empty air, touching the soil of no country. Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
~ Chris Cleave
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
~ Chris Cleave
One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
~ Kara Swisher
I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden