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Caged Quotes (page 7)

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
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail. Augusten Burroughs
Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. Frank Harris
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
Victor Hugo quote: "The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It..."
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. Victor Hugo
Aimee Mann quote: "You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer...."
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame Aimee Mann
Billy Corgan quote: "Despite all my rage. I am still just a rat in the cage."
Despite all my rage. I am still just a rat in the cage. Billy Corgan
One opal cloudlet in an oval form reflects the rainbow of a thunderstorm which in a distant valley has been staged for we are most artistically caged. Vladimir Nabokov
I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage. Conan O'Brien
That evening he plays with the children, cleans the hamster's cage with them, gets them into their pyjamas, and reads to them three times over, once together, then to Jake on his own, then to Naomi. It is at times like these that his life makes sense. How soothing it is, the scent of clean bedlinen and minty toothpaste breath, and his children's eagerness to hear the adventures of imaginary beings, and how touching, to watch the children's eyes grow heavy as they struggle to hang on to the... Ian Mcewan
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... William Goldman
Amy Tan quote: "I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets..."
I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage. Amy Tan
Haruki Murakami quote: "Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just..."
Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one? Haruki Murakami
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs. Terry Prachett
Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage. Minds innocent and quiet take. That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love. And in my soul am free. Angels alone that soar above. Enjoy such liberty Richard Lovelace

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