Cages Quotes - Page 14

• I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Bird, Heartless

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• She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.

  Katie Roiphe

  Bird, Atmosphere, Stories

  Katie Roiphe (2007). “Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939”, p.70, Dial Press

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• The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.

  Dawn Powell

  Years, Evil, Childhood

  Dawn Powell (1994). “Dawn Powell at Her Best”

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• When you watch Canadian kids [Box Lacrosse Players] score, when you see their skill level around the cage, you wonder to yourself, 'Jeez, are we teaching kids [in the U.S.] the wrong things?

  Dom Starsia

  Teaching, Kids, Player

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• 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

  Baby, Order, Monsters

  "I can be a real arrogant brat" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2003.

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• There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go
  straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.

  A. A. Milne

  Zoos, Animal, Past

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

  Tom Robbins

  Animal, Men, Psychics

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam

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• Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

  Morton Feldman

  Metaphor, Parables, Music Is

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Bird, Soul, Body

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• Let The Rock understand this, he beats your ass in cage match last week and now your the number 1 contender? Well The Rock knows exactly why that is; you've got a three foot nose you turn it sideways and stick it straight up Vince's ass!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Funny, Rocks, Wwe

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• The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Art, Kids, College

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

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• You want to be like a ticking bomb. As calm as possible before the fight, to save energy… But ready to explode the second you step into the cage.

  Alexander Gustafsson

  Fighting, Mma, Energy

  "Exclusive Interview: Alexander ‘The Mauler’ Gustafsson – What Karate Can Learn from MMA". Interview with Jesse Enkamp, www.karatebyjesse.com.

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• He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Art, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

  Edward Hoagland

  Mountain, Lions, Paws

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• Sting told me if I love somebody I should set them free. I doubt Sting ever loved anyone with wings. If he did he might rethink such a stupid sentiment. I suppose the point is to wait for your love to come back to you voluntarily. I wonder if there’s a difference between setting something free and letting it go? I probably did it wrong. I should stop taking advice from my radio. I worry that you’re lost. I keep a heart-shaped cage unlocked for you, out on the street where it can easily be seen. So if one day you return at least you’ll have a place to stay.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stupid, Heart, Wings

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• A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

  Sebastian Barry

  Men, Garden, Hiding Something

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Thinking, Jumping

  "Notes of a Dirty Old Man". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1969.

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• It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

  Tom Regan

  Hunting, Animal, Practice

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!

  Zhuangzi

  Running, Eye, Heart

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• Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
  Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage:
  If I have freedom in my love, and in my Soul I am free,
  Angels alone, that soar above, enjoy such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wall, Angel, Iron

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

  Hafez

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

  Chino XL

  Rap, Wrestling, Hip Hop

  Song: Freestyle Rhymes

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