quotes about Cages
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
-- Aimee Mann -
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.
-- Alex Caceres -
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Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.
-- Anna Dello RussoSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
-- Axel Munthe -
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
-- Ayaan Hirsi AliSource : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
-- Brian Eno -
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I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.
-- Brian Leetch -
Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.
-- Charles Lamb -
These poems need to be released from their cages,
-- Coleman Barks -
Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.
-- Craig Stone -
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I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!
-- Daniel Ricciardo -
I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.
-- Diane Kruger -
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.
-- Dolph Lundgren -
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
-- Earle BrownSource : "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, Matthew Santa, 1996.
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You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.
-- Elton JohnSource : Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves
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If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks.
-- Geneen Roth -
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You can't put this possum in a cage
-- George JonesSource : Song: I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair, 1992
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I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage, Cersei thought.
-- George R. R. Martin -
On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
-- Greg EganSource : Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean
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My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels,
-- Greg Iles -
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You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.
-- Greg Jackson -
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
-- Gregory Maguire -
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
-- HoraceSource : Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
-- James A. Baldwin -
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Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige.
-- Janet Evanovich -
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
-- Jasper Johns -
There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!
-- Jeffrey HunterSource : "Fictional character: Captain Christopher Pike". "Star Trek", TV Series (1966–1969). "The Cage", www.imdb.com. 1986.
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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
-- Jeffrey Kluger -
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The bars on our cage are of our own making.
-- Jessie Burton -
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
-- Jimmy Hoffa -
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound
-- John BetjemanSource : John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.73, A&C Black
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
-- John Cage -
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Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
-- John Huston -
It's better to die free than live life in a cage.
-- Jordan Dane -
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground,
-- Kenneth S. DeffeyesSource : "Petroleum joyride almost over?". www.wired.com. May 29, 2005.
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The only good cage is an empty cage.
-- Lawrence AnthonySource : Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.368, Pan Macmillan
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John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
-- Lester Bangs -
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
-- Lewis Hyde -
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
-- Libba Bray -
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How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.
-- Libba Bray -
Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.
-- Lil Wayne -
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage
-- Marcelo Rios -
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The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.
-- Massad AyoobSource : "An Interview With A Lethal Man". Interview with Peter Evans, Helen Evans, www.freerepublic.com. February 8, 2005.
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You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.
-- Matthew J. Kirby -
Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.
-- Mehmet Murat Ildan -
Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
-- Michael Moorcock -
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Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
-- Morton FeldmanSource : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”
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All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
-- Neil Peart -
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
-- Nicanor Parra -
Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
-- Nirmalananda -
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Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.
-- Obert Skye -
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.
-- Peter Block -
The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.
-- Philip Wollen -
Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit
-- Pope Francis -
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Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.
-- Priscilla Welch -
Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose.
-- Rachel Vincent -
I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.
-- Ray Davies -
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Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
-- Richard Paul Evans -
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.
-- Rob Bell -
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
-- Robbie Robertson -
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.
-- Rumi -
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Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.
-- Sarah WatersSource : Sarah Waters (2011). “Tipping The Velvet”, p.213, Hachette UK
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A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
-- Sharon Creech -
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
-- Sheldon B. Kopp -
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Ill be playing a priest in Chavez Cage Of Glory, which is a fight movie.
-- Steven Bauer -
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
-- Tennessee Williams -
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
-- Thomas Beecham -
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
-- Timothy Spall -
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
-- Tom Stoppard -
You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
-- Tori Amos -
The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour.
-- Ugo Monye -
People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.
-- Vincent Van Gogh -
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One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.
-- Viola Spolin -
The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
-- Will Cuppy -
... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
-- William Butler Yeats -
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
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Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Put God and me in a cage, what do you think who will win. God, because I created him.
-- Zach Braff -
We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.
-- Maia Szalavitz -
I'll get a nice little break, after doing Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. Whether I'm in [his show], I don't know, but there's The Defenders.
-- Mike Colter -
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I have this ideal listener, as John Cage did. This listener doesn't bring expectations that my music will fit into some part of music history, or that it will do any particular thing. This listener is just open to listening.
-- Missy Mazzoli -
I have too many guys that count on me as a coach so in 2009 you're going to see me in a lot of cages and rings but I'll only be in them to corner my fighters.
-- Shawn Tompkins -
If you think I'm afraid of the steel cage...YOU'RE RIGHT! Please God, don't make me go into the cage!
-- Stevie Richards -
I grew up mostly in Champaign, Illinois. My dad was at the University of East Illinois, so I was always around the music. One of my dad's buddies was the avant-garde composer John Cage, so I picked up on that weird classical and eclectic music.
-- Stuart Hamm -
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Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.
-- Todd Farmer -
Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.
-- Martin WalserSource : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. March 9, 2012.
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A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.
-- Paolo Di Canio -
I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”
-- Coleman BarksSource : "Love’s Confusing Joy: Coleman Barks on Poet Jelaluddin Rumi". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 16, 1995.
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I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!
-- Daniel Ricciardo -
You're standing in the cage and you've got two options - you can quit or you can continue going, and I'm not a quitter.
-- Rich Franklin -
I've never wanted to be a cage fighter myself, but I definitely do enjoy the entertainment of it.
-- Sean FarisSource : Source: www.movieweb.com
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Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they're heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you'd miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.
-- Jessica CoxSource : Source: www.marieclaire.com
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