#cap

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#captures #essence #form #novel #other

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#more #write #writing #you

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#bach #bad #cannot #capable #development

What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#attention #capture #competitors #consumers #money

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#being #destroyed #ecology #growing #growing up

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#ago #aids #came #capacity #challenges

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. ↗

— John Berry

#better #cannot #capable #fail #good

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind