I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the…

“In the Cymek we call it furiach-yajh-hett: the dancing mad god. I never thought to see one. It came out of a funnel in…

— Anonymous

“Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex…

— China Miéville

I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a…

— William Cowper

i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with…

— Don Marquis

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper,…

— Bruce Sterling

“I discovered that there was just as much humor to be found in the minutiae of everyday life as there was in a tale…

— Nancy the Cat

The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are…

— Brian Henson

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

“My mind started to tumble, much like fresh pasta dough rolls its way through the machine. I hadn't made fresh pasta yet in this…

— Amanda Elliot

That was my concept from the beginning - a crazy caper that's a parable for what happens in the absence of regulation.

— Jake Halpern

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…

— William Shakespeare

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a…

— Carl Hiaasen

There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run…

— Bob Goff

I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife…

— Bebe Neuwirth

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…

— Theodore Sturgeon