Capta Quotes

#1. The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

R.D. Laing

#2. The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.
[Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit;
Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]

Ovid

#3. I seem to play a lot of losers.

Danny Huston

#4. The hallway to overflowing, somehow, the three of them, loud and male and so comfortable with one another that they allowed no one else to be comfortable with

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. Once you transcend the illusions you will discover that - you - are the most thrilling experience you will ever have.

Bryant McGill

#6. There is no subtle way to mention you miss the curve of someone's ass.

Joey Comeau

#7. Memories did that to you. They glorified the past until the real thing was often a letdown, making you wonder why you had craved it so assiduously in the first place.

Melanie Milburne

#8. Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.

Sylvie Simmons

#9. With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Sharon Begley

#10. It may be your soul that I love, but I'm pretty keen on its vessel, too.

Laini Taylor

#11. When circumstances appear impossible, faith reminds us that apparent impossibilities are wondrous opportunities for God to move.

Cheryl Zelenka