Top 70 Capturing Quotes

I feel as though there are things that I’m trying to do – you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience – and I’m trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it’s harder than you think.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It’s about capturing a moment. It’s the same as love’s first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn’t work so well.

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I’m interested in. That’s what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn’t be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again – and what you’ve got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

I’m not going to say I know a ton about what I’m looking at, but I enjoy capturing the photos and the artistry of it. I’m getting better at it, and I’ll keep getting better.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren’t there to save the world.

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.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn’t get the job done.

I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It’s all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn’t matter to me.

All my stories take place on the West Coast – not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that.

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

I don’t think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How much like Charlie Chaplin did Robert Downey Jr. look in ‘Chaplin?’ Did Meryl Steep actually resemble Nora Ephron in ‘Heartburn?’

As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn’t make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope’s mirror is capturing primeval light… galaxies that existed before our time.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

I’m against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That’s the same thing with DJ-ing. There’s so much improvisation you can do with cuttin’ and scratchin’ that’s reminiscent of jazz music, because it’s all about how you feel. You’re capturing a vibe and just going with it.

We’re used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We’re used to capturing everything.

I love films that are more random and chaotic, finding moments and capturing them.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

I worked closely with Steve Jobs for twenty-six years. To this day, for all that has been written about him, I don’t believe that any of it comes close to capturing the man I knew.

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can’t bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

When I first started blogging, it was about getting out new music and capturing artists working in the studio. This was before artists were so social. They weren’t so hands-on then.

I like to shoot feature films because it’s about capturing emotions… words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

Capturing a beautiful moment in a photo is something I’m very passionate about.

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for ‘capturing and robbing us.

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google’s traffic congestion maps.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major – capturing, reflecting and improvising.

I think one has to say it’s not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that’s why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

My passion is capturing what it feels like to love, be it romantic or otherwise. I love to watch two people realize what they meant for each other – and that goes across all media, books, TV, movies, personal essays; everything.

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They’re only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that’s a direct string to somebody’s soul.

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

You gotta do a lot more than rap. Rap is not just rap. If you don’t have an image, you’re not capturing nobody’s attention.

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that’s intangible, and while it’s happening, it’s great. But then when it’s done, there’s really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

We’ve done that whole spectrum of different varieties of shows, and we’ve figured out the best way of capturing the audience and taking them to a place where they will have an experience that they will never forget, whether they don’t like it, or they actually resonate with what we’re trying to do.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

We need to coordinate closely with international partners, right down to tightly-coordinated execution of seizures, searches, and arrests, so that instead of capturing a single criminal, we’re taking down an entire enterprise.

The hardest part of ghost writing other people’s stories is capturing their voices so that it isn’t you talking, it’s them.

Killing terrorists is cheaper than capturing them.

Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.

Tom Hooper did an amazing job in capturing the feel of Victor Hugo’s book. I thought some of the performances were incredible. I thought the Bishop would be a nice part to play, and they all made such a fuss of me being there.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

These guys are just flying through the air and I’m capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

Lamantia is faith building, encouraging poetry in that it abstractly hugs you by finally capturing the inexpressible. It’s an experience similar to relief, reading his poems.