Cages Quotes - Page 8

• Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Here, I think, lies our real dilemma. Probably we cannot, certainly we shall not, retrace our steps. We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Lying, Animal

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• 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

  Born, Humans, Convinced

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• I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

  Sylvia Plath

  Cooking, Meals, Routine

  1949 Diary entry,13 Nov. Collected in Aurelia Schober Plath (ed) Letters Home by Sylvia Plath,'Diary Supplement' (1949).

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• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

  Epes Sargent

  Bird, Remembrance, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 558, 1895.

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• My cage has many rooms.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Rooms

  Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler (1979). “Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street: a musical thriller”, Dodd Mead

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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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• 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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• I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Barack Obama's remarks at GOP House Issues Conference in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2010.

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• Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

  Charles Lamb

  Animal, Wild Animal, Reconcile

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Last essays of Elia”, p.93

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

  Hun Sen

  Dog, Strong, Trying

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• 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

  Elephants, Safari, Lions

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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

  Noise, Appreciated, Made

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• My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

  Greg Iles

  Father, Heart, Novel

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• There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, People, Monkeys

  "Maynard James Keenan Discusses Donkey Punch the Night". Interview with Jason P. Woodbury, www.phoenixnewtimes.com. January 24, 2013.

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• When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Life, Hurt, Bird

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• Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Doors

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• The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lions, Caged

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• There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Air, Names

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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