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A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over. -- Rick Riordan
Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear. -- Chuck Kruger
He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. -- Herman Melville
Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile. -- Marianne Moore
The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor. -- Riaad Moosa
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems. -- Jacob Zuma
Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras -- Hart Crane
I once owned a home on an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. -- Joseph Monninger
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. -- Doris Lessing
Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind. -- John Masefield
And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture. -- K. Sello Duiker
My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod. -- Rachael Ray
I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. -- Rebecca McNutt
The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite. -- Jane Leavy
We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue. -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings. -- Damon Galgut
I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although it's my favorite. -- Natalie MacMaster
The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations. -- Reinhard Bonnke
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr. -- Tamora Pierce
I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake. -- Sune Rose Wagner
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! -- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is. -- Rory Bremner
Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly. -- Herman Melville
In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined. -- Bindi Irwin
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. -- H. L. Mencken
I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off. -- Albert Brooks
The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on. -- Henry David Thoreau
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks. -- Alan Huffman
I'm one-hundred-fifty miles off Cape Horn, both autopilots are broken, and my boat is drifting toward one of the nastiest chunks of ocean on the face of the earth. -- Abby Sunderland
One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod. -- Kara Swisher
I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all! -- Alexander Graham Bell
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white. -- Peter Abrahams
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me. -- Mamie Gummer
So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet. -- William Adams
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down." -- Sean Pertwee
Love assumes expectation and hope. All actors of the hazardous pursuit of love eagerly look forward to passing a significant cape without injuries or aching scratches: "the Cape of good Hope". ( " Those journeys of love" ) -- Erik Pevernagie
In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down. -- Sean Pertwee
A waiter at the hotel kept telling me that Cape Town is just like a European city, but it's not like that at all. It doesn't feel safe, and I didn't really go out at night. -- Robert Webb
It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s. -- Robert Towne
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. -- Richard Serra
Well, we're originally from Glace Bay.Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. Tell me all about it, dear. -- Beatrice Rose Roberts
Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear. -- Beatrice Rose Roberts
Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses. -- Wilbur Smith
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force. -- William Bligh
You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there. -- Kenneth Frampton
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity. -- John F. Kennedy
You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that's been very rough economically. It's a very special thing to be helpful there. -- Gerry Schwartz
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. -- William Bligh
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often. -- Farley Mowat
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest. -- Sebastian Junger
On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. -- William Bligh
I'm pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn't look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement! -- Amber Rose
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace. -- Robert Ardrey
what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it? -- Kristen Henderson
I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon, I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon, but I don't want to be the second man to go there. -- Evel Knievel
Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable. -- Jane Leavy
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. -- Joseph C. Lincoln
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island. -- Natalie MacMaster
By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded. -- Jane Leavy
There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean. -- Abby Sunderland
In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am excited about our restoration efforts to bring it back to its original landscape. -- Louis Bacon
And sometimes it's fun to be the guy who just really enjoys it, like the guy I'm playing now on The Cape. He's more that. He's much more flashy and debonaire and devil may care-ish. He just loves doing bad in the world. That's real fun to do. -- James Frain
I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for. -- Howie Carr
What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world? -- Kyle Chandler
It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on. -- Trent Reznor
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in. -- Dave Grohl
I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog. -- Martin Freeman
The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour. -- Jason Statham
James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman. -- Mayer Hawthorne
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help. -- Naomi Campbell
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire. -- Roma Downey
Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask. -- Jim Lee
I live in Cape Town but my favourite holiday destination is Hermanus, a little seaside town about a 90-minute drive away, over the pass and down to the sea, on the sunshine coast. It's where I love to escape to with my wife for a weekend every now and again. -- Wilbur Smith
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. -- Van Wyck Brooks
I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, February 1980, was De Niro and Scorsese in 'Raging Bull,' and when I went back, it was 'Cape Fear,' with De Niro and Scorsese. I picked up right where I left off at. -- August Wilson
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' -- Maya Angelou
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical. -- Christian Bale
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way. -- Tom Hiddleston
When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift. -- Iggy Pop
I never play without my cape. -- Bela Lugosi
Not every flying hero has a cape. -- Michael Jordan
Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life. -- Austin Grossman
It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. -- Rick Riordan
There are things you don't do in life. You don't tug on superman's cape... -- Roman Reigns
Ah, Kurosaki, I see you've finally realized the importance of a cape. ~Uryu Ishida -- Tite Kubo
I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece. -- Tim Daly
When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN, -- Milo Ventimiglia
I remember the first time I had sex. I wore a cape and goggles... because I didn't know. -- Eugene Mirman
Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here"?less hi-how're-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter's-patients. -- J.R. Ward
I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit. -- Shane Black
Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. -- Lincoln Peirce
... the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for ... -- Tucker Max
Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on & take -- Nicki Minaj
You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair. -- Taylor Swift
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else. -- Haley Joel Osment
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape. -- Rupert Holmes
Remember when you're young and you think your dad is Superman? And then you grow up and realized he's just a drunk who wears a cape. -- Dave Attell
What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth. -- Suzanne Collins
Being a cab river is not unlike being a magician--minus the top hat, the cape, the rabbit, an the gorgeous assistant. But you do have an audience. -- Gary Reilly
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. -- Taylor Swift
Ew, no!' Laurel said, brushing past him. Dracula covered half his face with his cape, shunned vampire-style, and scooted away to his perch behind the counter. -- Sara Shepard
Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape. -- Catherine Hardwicke
I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can. -- John Assaraf
A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
I call my thumb Napoleon, because I rarely ever lose a thumb war. Also because my thumb's so small, and I wear a tiny funny hat and cape on it. -- Jarod Kintz
Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim. -- Jim Croce
Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape. -- Douglas Brinkley
You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature. -- Kiera Cass
Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly." -- Mandy Hale
Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly. -- Mandy Hale
I go to work, I do a job, I play a role, and then I go home. I don't wear a cape at home. I'm not an invulnerable alien at home. -- Henry Cavill
Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked." -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Our shouting is louder than our actions, Our swords are taller than us, This is our tragedy. In short We wear the cape of civilisation But our souls live in the stone age -- Nizar Qabbani
And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw. -- Joe Shuster
I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports. -- Matthew Gray Gubler

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