We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture…

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

— Allen Ginsberg

“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time, to brushstrokes…

— Anthony Liccione

But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world…

— Jodi Picoult

I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as easily be…

— Andre Aciman

“But a word once spoken who can recapture it?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

— Matt Sharp

“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy…

— Sun Tzu

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

— Anne Frank

Gather and hoard your inspirations as you live, then recapture them as needed in the studio.

— Nita Engle

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

— Peter Høeg

“We are all exiles from our past , and, as such, we need to recapture it.”

— Esther Salaman

“Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost…

— Amulya Malladi

I wanted to go out there and do what no one's ever done - and that's recapture some kind of glory.

— Justin Gatlin

“Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.”

— Fang Chen

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh