Recapitulate Quotes

#1. As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles of narrative don't conform to my style of experiencing the world.

Mark Leyner

#2. [W]hat is this state, from women's point of view? The state is male in the feminist sense: the law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women ... The state's formal norms recapitulate the male point of view on the level of design.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#3. Just as the embryo recapitulates in brief the evolution of the species, so did Suzanne recapitulate all the styles of her lovers.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

Chris Weitz

#5. There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

John Sterling

#6. I wanted, but I refused to take.
Now I resent, what I do not have.

Sarah Ann Walker

#7. I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.

Dionne Bromfield

#8. Useless, idle, exploitative male chauvinist drone!

Sue Limb

#9. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say?
And why are you waiting?

Stephen Levine

#10. The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

Ray Lee Hunt

#11. History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

#12. He can kick as hard as he wants but he cannot destroy what is inside. I have a strong spirit and the Rat will never take that away from me, no matter what he does.
-Matt

Kathryn Erskine

#13. How was it possible to hate him so much and still need him so much at the same time?

Jenny O'Connell

#14. She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have beguiled Nino: the gratuitousness of Lila's intelligence.

Elena Ferrante

#15. I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

Alanis Morissette

#16. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Jackson Pollock