Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Charles

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.

We have learned over the last 10 or 15 years that images captured on film show only a very small part of an event.

Vint Cerf

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

Brenton Thwaites

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Orhan Pamuk

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

Bill Callahan

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

We didn't really know until now if we had captured them. For all we knew, they could have just exploded on impact.

I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

I wanted to paint with shadows and capture what light would look like in clothes.

Peter Thiel

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

Rose Wilder Lane

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

Richard MacDonald

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

Robert McNamara

Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

The data we have comes from a physician re-registration survey. So when physicians are renewing their licenses we can capture information about them.

To live in this single moment,this lightest breath, this softest touch,to be captured by this smallest, this briefest space of time,to be fully present, alive, consumed in this instant alone,this is truly living.

Donald Rumsfeld

We need your help to capture the rest of them, ... We also need to get rid of foreign fighters, those from neighboring countries who are seeking to hijack your country for their own purposes.

Jim Gilmore

We know there are more in there. We have captured five (in July) and we saw another four or five adults.

We had watched (the militant group) for three months and we wanted to capture him soon. But he was not there.

Jason Martin

We wanted to just capture more of the market. It's very competitive.

We have to manage cattle to minimize discounts and capture any premiums.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

Fifteen years ago, it was a lot more difficult to market the NBA overseas. If (the NBA) wants to survive into this next century, they have to capture the international market's attention.

Ken Fletcher

Fifteen students demonstrated their mettle and captured 18 medals.

Dino De Laurentiis

These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.

Barry Ritholtz

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

But our capture systems for leach water have not been perfect. We're spending a lot of money to correct that.

Andy Serkis

The fact of the matter is that an actor, if I'm playing a performance capture role and you're playing a live action role and we're having a scene together, there's no difference in our acting processes.

Andy Serkis

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

Matt Gonzalez

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.

Barry Eisler

The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.

Steve Sheinkin

I'm a big fan of Clint Eastwood, but the Westerns I draw from most directly come from an earlier period in Hollywood. I actually look back at movies like 'Rio Bravo' and others I've liked over the years, and I capture pictures from the movies and use them as a reference for the scenes I create.

Jean Reno

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!