Capp Quotes & Sayings

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. — Al Capp

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend? — Al Capp

Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp - to go. — Linda Evangelista

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. — Al Capp

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. — Al Capp

So you, Granddaughter, will not die for this. But one of your Thirteen will." For — Sarah J. Maas

As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head. — Art Buchwald

As Capp would remember, his paternal grandfather's early years in the store were characterized by success and expansion - until, that is, he discovered the works of Alexandre Dumas. To that point, he'd read virtually nothing but the Talmud, but he quickly determined that the swashbuckling adventures described in The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and other Dumas novels were much more exciting. He was hooked. Capp recalled seeing a photograph of his grandfather, cutting quite the figure with his long, Russian-style hair and beard, seated outside his store, reading Dumas rather than waiting on customers. He went out of business, his store purchased by creditors. — Denis Kitchen

Love isn't about what you have or who you know. It's about how you earn what you have and how you treat those you love. — Lisa De Jong

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp

I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough. — Saina Nehwal

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. — Al Capp

Westlife earnt millions. We were on the 'Irish Times' Rich List. And then ... I'm not! — Shane Filan

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor. — Al Capp

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. — Joseph Chamberlain

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred. — Vaclav Havel

What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.! — Al Capp

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. — Al Capp

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. — Al Capp

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. — Al Capp

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I want you to identify your strengths or talents and to find something about yourself that makes you unique and special and refer to that image each time you find yourself feeling insecure or unsure. — Carlos Wallace

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth. — Alvin Adams

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest. — Al Capp

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp

Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed if necessary. — Al Capp

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing. — Daniel Goleman

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. — William Shakespeare

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator. — Rick Perry

When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear. — Geraldine Brooks

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. — Al Capp

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet. — Kurt Vonnegut

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. — Oriana Fallaci

Remember what I said. There's always a lot of autobiography in fiction and fiction in autobiography. It has to be that way otherwise they'd be unreadable (except by the author). — Nina Stibbe