Alfred Capus Quotes

#1. A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

Pete Seeger

#2. There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

#3. To marry a woman you love and who loves you is to lay a wager with her as to who will stop loving the other first.

Alfred Capus

#4. Jealousy is beautiful only on a young and ardent face. After the first wrinkles, trust must return.

Alfred Capus

#5. A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

Alfred Capus

#6. The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

George R R Martin

#7. Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

Alfred Capus

#8. You're speechless." He chuckled. "I like that. And I also like you all feisty. Want to hit me again?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

Aristotle.

#10. An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Neel Burton

#11. There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

Alfred Capus

#12. He was a typical specimen of the younger son in avid pursuit of mediocrity with which the Theurgist's teemed:

Zen Cho

#13. Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.

Alfred Capus

#14. KINDNESS IS one of the most powerful qualities a person can possess. It is like a gentle rain that falls everywhere, without excluding a single place.

Eline Snel

#15. When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

Dani Shapiro

#16. The best memories are those which we have forgotten.

Alfred Capus

#17. It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.

Ewan McGregor

#18. Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

Ali Smith

#19. SLAP! I saw a bright flash in front of my eyes, 'Don't you try and be a fucking smart arse in here, Holland, this is Partick cop shop you're in,' the irate copper retorted.
'So fuck,' I snapped.

Stephen Richards

#20. movies are the most bastardized form of art?

Anupama Chopra

#21. There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.

Tom Hardy