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Quotes About Capture

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
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
~ Annie Leibovitz
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
~ Julius Shulman
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.
~ Laurie Simmons
All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of Death.
~ Roland Barthes
The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.
~ Elliott Erwitt
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
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
~ Eudora Welty
If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that we have to learn how to do carbon capture and storage and we have to learn how to do it quickly on a commercial scale.
~ Nicholas Stern
I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
~ Harold Feinstein
I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.
~ Ray Charles
Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the 'Daredevil' story. So when it comes to 'Elektra', they didn't follow one of her specific story lines, you know. They really tried to capture what comes through the comics, but there's not one specific storyline.
~ Elodie Yung
We wanted to capture Danvers' humor and flaws. For us as storytellers, those are all aspects that we really appreciate in characters.
~ Ryan Fleck
The Pawn moves only one square at a time, and that straight forward, except in the act of capturing, when it takes one step diagonally to the right or left file on to the square occupied by the man taken, and continues on that file until it captures another man.
~ Howard Staunton
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
~ Bruno Mars
Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers.
~ Tim Ingold
The other day we hauled in a guy named Abu Zubaydah," President Bush said at a Republican fund-raiser in Greenwich, Connecticut, on April 9. "He's one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States. He's not plotting and planning anymore. He's where he belongs.
~ Tim Weiner
The lies that capture us as Christians usually seem to fit well within the borders of our Christianity.
~ Timothy S. Lane
PLUMBER'S GIRLFRIEND CAPTURED BY APE! is a story, but it is a rudimentary fairytale story without any of the proper fairytale's evocative nuances and dreads.
~ Tom Bissell
People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'.
~ Tom Cox
In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.
~ Anjelica Huston
If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.
~ Jennifer Nettles
It's a mystery to me how kidnappers ever get caught.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
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~ Parris Afton Bonds