Captures Quotes

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

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

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

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.

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

Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.