Quotes About Captions

#1. Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

Susan Sontag

#2. A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

Peter Landesman

#3. I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

Harvey Pekar

#4. It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch lines and captions. Be funny now! And if you're not inspired, they don't care - be funny now! They have to fill that hole the next day.

Steve Breen

#5. All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

Jeff Foxworthy

#6. All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false ... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

Errol Morris

#7. Prioritize activities under the captions "important" and "urgent". Do the urgent things first and the important things later.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. I have to rub my eyes and read the captions again. They're still there. The Elector has freed Eden.

Marie Lu

#9. Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They're epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.

Virginia Heffernan

#11. In fact, words do speak louder than pictures. Captions do tend to override the evidence of our eyes; but no caption can permanently restrict or secure a picture's meaning.

Susan Sontag

#12. I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

Josef Koudelka

#13. I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

Siegfried Woldhek

#14. Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.

Marlee Matlin

#15. There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.'

Emilia Clarke

#16. A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

Steve Breen

#17. Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

Galen Rowell

#18. Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.

Shaun Tan

#19. High school girls came bustling along, their rosy red cheeks puffing white breaths you could have written cartoon captions in.

Haruki Murakami

#20. 'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Joe Clark

#21. Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered if Isaac did this all the time-and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips Over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

Patricia Briggs

#22. So scary watching the news ... Like Iraq ... could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.

Bill Hicks

#23. No broad is going to rip out my throat; I don't care what she looks like.

Gisele Walko

#24. A selfie has nothing to do with ego. It is a constant search for perfection.

Chloe Thurlow

#25. Why do we weep when we see something beautiful? Why are we weakened by beauty? Why does it break our hearts?

Anne Rice

#26. No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Edmund Burke

#27. Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don't they?

Kelly Link

#28. head to acknowledge the occasional petting

Garth Stein

#29. I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Kathleen Turner

#30. Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.

Sharon Salzberg

#31. Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound.

Mark Helprin

#32. I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#33. The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master

Robert Hunter

#34. How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

David Mitchell

#35. No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

Ian McKellen

#36. Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?"
"Careful. You're talking about the man I love.

Sarah Mayberry