Cages Quotes

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

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

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground.

Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from their cages.”

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.

I have too many guys that count on me as a coach so in 2009 you're going to see me in a lot of cages and rings but I'll only be in them to corner my fighters.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

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

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

Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

The bars on our cage are of our own making.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

My cage has many rooms.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

I know that when I get in there and I leave that cage I will leave with more than I came in.

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage.

If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage.

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

There's a way out of any cage, and I'll find it!

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

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

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is that we went to producers and there were a lot of great producers.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

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

I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.

I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages.

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

I barely leave my cage, my house.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

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.

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

I've never wanted to be a cage fighter myself, but I definitely do enjoy the entertainment of it.

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

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