Cage Quotes

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

End, Daily, Depression

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Marilyn Monroe

Bird, Wants, Hug

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Thought, Lion

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Home, Natural

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Art, Science, Democracy

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

Love, Truth, Simple

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, Desperate, Inside

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita

Silence, Means, Speech

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Beauty, Mind, Woman

A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen

Bird, Wants, Forest

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Great, Men, Anxiety

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Money, Art

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.
Tom Felton

Life, Cool, Pet

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
Shia LaBeouf

Cool, Give, Able

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum

Human, Keep, Existence

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer

Selfish, Law, Wild

I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such a big lung capacity.
Jessica Simpson

Why, Big, Until

You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Great, Artists, John

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.
Jeanette Winterson

Crazy, Until, Behavior

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
Klaus Kinski

Put, Hurts, Bird

I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.
Diane Kruger

Love, Work, Fun

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
John Sununu

Discipline, Avoid, Wishing

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
Todd Barry

Private, Tour, Zoo

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
Nicolas Cage

Age, Power, Character

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

Love, Family, Eat

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.
Paul Thomas Anderson

Sometimes, Difficult, Anyone

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace

Nor, Prison, Stone

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
James Bovard

Government, Democracy, Law

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton

Great, Men, Anxiety

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