Cages Quotes - Page 6

• When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

  Frank Herbert

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.260, Penguin

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• The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Skeletons, Support, Bars

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• Fifty years ago people believed, accurately, that they were entitled to seek the blue bird, whereas today they believe, mistakenly, that they're entitled to find it and take it home, in a complimentary cage with a month's supply of birdseed....Those who think they've a right to catch whatever they are free to chase, are doomed to disappointment. That's our generation in a nutshell.

  George Jonas

  Disappointment, Believe, Home

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• Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Long, Lions, Grids

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• Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Animal, Dangerous World, People

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.6, Canongate Books

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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

  Player, World, Stage

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• I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Clouds, Bird, Bars

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Bird

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• I not only hope that YouTube channels compete with television shows for viewers and revenue, I hope they develop a bitter rivalry which could only be settled by an elaborate medieval tournament where the two entities fight to the death in a steel cage.

  Ray William Johnson

  Fighting, Two, Steel

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  Grateful, Way, Lennon

  "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 299), 1988.

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• I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to this man who had been so influential to me, I began creating or constructing my own films on this so-called "magic" number of 92 ... but when I eventually made a film about John Cage and met him, I explained this to him, and he found it very amusing because there are only 90 stories on the two sides of the record, and I'd based three years of my filmic career on this mathematical error!

  Peter Greenaway

  Mistake, Men, Years

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Iron, Age, Praying

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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 John

  Wings, Bird, Adages

  Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

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• You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Drug

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Keys, Locks, Built

  Geneen Roth (1997). “Appetites: On the Search for True Nourishment”, p.130, Penguin

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• Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).

  Jasper Johns

  Garden, Rocks, Space

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Devil

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• Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

  Julie Schumacher

  Talking, Opening Up, Clothes

  Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.

  Harold Perrineau

  Blow, Actors, Want

  "Harold Perrineau on Lost, Oz, and co-starring with Nicolas Cage in Seeking Justice". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 18, 2012.

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• When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Doors, Bird

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• HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Two, Voice

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

  Andre Maurois

  Bird, Anxiety, Doe

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• 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

  Art, Sound, Form

  "John Adds Plaster Casts To Focus Target Paintings". Donald Key, Milwaukee Journal, June 19, 1960.

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• The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

  Ted Hughes

  Long, Horizon, World

  1957 'The Jaguar'.

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• I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

  William Carlos Williams

  Truth, Bird, Fool

  William Carlos Williams, Christopher John MacGowan, Robert Crockett (2003). “William Carlos Williams”, p.9, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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