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Cage Quotes (page 3)

When you considered this world--people winched up and lowered down into the earth in steel cages and speed-fed through the tunnels, with doors cracking everywhere, and arctic winds mingling with dusty gaps of fire from the planet's core--it was hard to believe how delicate life was, how breakable things were. Martin Amis
Bruce Lee quote: "Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only..."
Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. Bruce Lee
I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies. Mindy Kaling
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage. Vladimir Nabokov
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy. Bjork
Tennessee Williams quote: "I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)"
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) Tennessee Williams
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre? Patti Smith
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."
What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said. J. R. R. Tolkien
Nadine Gordimer quote: "The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation,..."
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. Nadine Gordimer
How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring? William Blake
A bird named Vlad the Impaler, who spent the bulk of his life hissing and looking at himself in a little mirror hanging[...] in the iron cage, a mirror so dull and cloudy with Vlad the Impaler’s bird-spit that Vlad the Impaler could not possibly have seen anything more than a vague yellowish blob behind a pane of mist[...] A bird that not infrequently literally bit the hand that fed it, before returning to dance in front of its own shapeless reflection, straining and contorting always for a... David Foster Wallace
Dualism:: In Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage. i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot. Ishmael Reed
Stephen King quote: "some birds aren`t ment to be caged... their feathers are just..."
some birds aren`t ment to be caged... their feathers are just to bright.... Stephen King
You cast another bewildered look at the books around you (or, rather: it was the books that looked at you, with the bewildered gaze of dogs who, from their cages in the city pound, see a former companion go off on the leash of his master, come to rescue him) Italo Calvino
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat George Bernard Shaw

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