Cage Quotes

388 Cage quotes by 323 unique authors

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… — William Goldman
Like chaos in a glass cage. — Melissa Marr
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… — Vladimir Nabokov
Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation… — Ilona Andrews
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering. — Gary Snyder
The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after… — Milan Kundera
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing,… — William Shakespeare
When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had never really… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that… — Truman Capote
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… — Mindy Kaling
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.… — Frank Herbert
I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she… — Elizabeth Wein
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While… — Yukio Mishima
Should've thought of that before you told my ex-girlfriend I eat live kittens for breakfast." A tiny twinge of guilt. Then the cat wondered what… — Nalini Singh
Leo dropped into the pool and approched the cage. "Hola, Tia. Little bit of trouble?" She [Hera] crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation. "Don't… — Rick Riordan
Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash… — Rick Riordan
If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to… — Laurell K. Hamilton
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might… — George Saunders
I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird… — Michelle Moran
-She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay… — Christine Feehan
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage. — Lewis Hyde
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… — Charlotte Bronte
May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the… — Libba Bray
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free. — Sheldon B. Kopp
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in. — John Cage

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