#capture

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#enemy #may #pawn #piece #play

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters. ↗

— Kurt Student

#aim #attack #capital #capture #dutch

Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#captures #like #oil #whoever #wild

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#business #capture #certain #films #going

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#capture #character #complex #henry #idea

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#alienation #battle #become #bullet #capital

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt. ↗

— Dick Dale

#capture #engineer #every #every time #felt

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#access #always #around #being #captured

People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#been #believe #captured #cares #government

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. ↗

— Weegee

#capture #film #moment #only #people