Cages Quotes - Page 17

• That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Love, Song, Heart

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

  Eve Ensler

  Home, Thinking, Patterns

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.137, Villard

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• Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Dream, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.118, Anchor

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• I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning when you did not flutter behind my waking eyelids.

  William Goldman

  Strong, Morning, Prayer

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, www.cnn.com. 1973.

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• Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

  Lewis Hyde

  Voice, Use, Emergencies

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• A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

  Katherine Applegate

  Hurt, Zoos, Rooms

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• Love your rage, not your cage.

  Alan Moore

  Rage, Vendetta

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• Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

  Haruki Murakami

  Ifs

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• No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Blue, Sky, Bird

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• Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room before you can say number-two pencil. Got it, you tall freak of nature?

  Kim Harrison

  Real, Coffee, Presence Of Mind

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• Low, a guy doesn't fall in love with you and have you love him back then just throw it away. You're too special. After being loved by you, he can't completely forget. He's haunted by it. I'd bet my life on it." -Cage York

  Abbi Glines

  Falling In Love, Love You, Guy

  Abbi Glines (2012). “Because of Low”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York

  Abbi Glines

  Sadness, Eye, Going Away

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• « Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. “I died, didn’t I? Are you an angel?” “Sure,” Barabas said. “Follow me to the Heavenly Shower »

  Ilona Andrews

  Angel, Men, Follow Me

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• You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Peace, Fun, Winning

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• Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Happiness, Squirrels, Self

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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

  Care, Want, Matter

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Brother, Lying

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• The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

  Ken Kesey

  Jobs, Regard, Asks

  Ken Kesey (2006). “Sometimes a Great Notion”, p.106, Penguin

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• Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Past, Our World

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  Ted Dekker

  Lonely, Taken, Intelligent

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• Mother ... considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage full of cobras.

  Margaret Truman Daniel

  Mother, Cobras, Publicity

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• He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Freedom

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• 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

  Two, Quitting, Quitter

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• The real slums are another matter. The bad parts of Tondo are as bad as any place I've seen, ancient, filthy houses swarmed with the poor and stinking of sewage and trash. But there are worse parts - squatter areas where people live under cardboard, in shipping crates, behind tacked-up newspapers. Dad would march you straight to the basement with a hairbrush in his hand if he caught you keeping your hamster cage like this.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dad, Real, Hands

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Thinking, Bird

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