Brandon Stanton

I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories.

American Photographer

Tom King

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

American Author

Emilia Clarke

There are no captions on red-carpet photos that say, 'This girl trained for two weeks, she went on a juice diet, she has a professional hair and makeup person, and this dress was made for her.' I just wish they'd say, 'It ain't the truth.

English Actress

Joe Clark

Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Canadian Scientist

Shaun Tan

Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.

Australian Artist

Galen Rowell

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

Jonathan Knight

My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine!

American Musician

Anna Wintour

I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.

English Editor

James Thurber

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

Caroline Calloway

I wrote the captions that built my brand.

American Celebrity

Captions should be brief but descriptive enough to understand the image context without ambiguity.

Concise Clarity

Use captions to provide additional information that the image alone cannot convey.

Enhance Understanding

Captions can include wordplay or humor, depending on the context and desired effect.

Language Play

Ensure the tone of your caption matches the tone of the image or subject matter.

Match Tone

Use captions to add a narrative or story element to pictures, especially in slideshows or photo essays.

Narrative Addition

Captions can provide insight into the photographer's perspective or message.

Perspective Insight

In texts, a caption signifies a subsection's topic, showing the hierarchy in the information structure.

Hierarchy Signifier

Choose captions that precisely hint at the content in the text section they head.

Precise Topics

Captions in a text guide the reader's attention to what is essential or critically discussed.

Focus Reader's Attention

 one of the groups that we studied and several years ago they were able to move from being an all-volunteer group five hundred thousand large to being able to offer their transcriptionists paid work because companies were coming to them asking them that they could quickly translate and caption video so that's a

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 Smiling at a television screen isn't going to make closed captions appear for people who are deaf. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille. It's just not going to happen. I really want to live in a world

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 they tend to be liberal, less conservative, that type of stuff. But for us, and for me, helping design the humor, it doesn't make any sense to compare one to the other. It's sort of a smorgasbord that's made all interesting. So I want to sum all this up with a caption to a cartoon,

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 when buses were not accessible, when trains were not accessible, where there were no wheelchair-accessible bathrooms in shopping malls, where you certainly did not have a sign language interpreter, or captioning, or braille or other kinds of supports. These things have changed,

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 as you walk through the world. You know, you don't necessarily know them. But now I'll go into a grocery store and as the person's ringing up my groceries, I'm thinking, what's her caption? What is it? And it's a completely different way of interacting with people

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 Some may draw directly on a tablet with a stylus. The choices at this stage of creation work in tandem with the idea, and often when the final caption is added, it gets adjusted yet again. But, little is left to chance, except, perhaps, some of the watercolor.

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 up got the caption and host at this point it's 500 likes per minute something like that there's a lot of activity it's still baffling to me how many people like each of these photos I put out I haven't done any outreach I haven't paid for any advertising it's

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 that scientists had hung on a hook from the ceiling, which is how they were able to observe that the heart of a blue whale is big enough that a person can stand up fully inside of it. And when Kaveh shared this photo online, he did so with the caption,

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 home but Holly cloak is one of the regular volunteers decides to adopt her and give her a permanent home she absolutely fell in love with that goal my husband said oh we have to do it in a very serendipitous caption and she's not

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 passage in the dry canyons of serra da capivara all the captions are feeling the heat