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  • We that are true lovers run into strange capers. -- William Shakespeare
  • Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god. -- China Mieville
  • He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. -- William Shakespeare
  • That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation. -- Jake Halpern
  • When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper. -- Laurence Shames
  • We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. -- William Shakespeare
  • Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it. -- Nora Ephron
  • Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. -- Noel Gallagher
  • Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. -- William Shakespeare
  • I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa. -- Alan Bradley
  • unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan. -- Anne Sexton
  • Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. -- Theodore Sturgeon
  • I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed. -- Bebe Neuwirth
  • If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless. -- Bruce Sterling
  • The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War. -- Herman Wouk
  • i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell -- Don Marquis
  • Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it. -- Nicholas Stoller
  • For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
  • His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations. -- Gerhard Roth
  • I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. -- Jane Austen
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