Cage Quotes

388 Cage quotes by 323 unique authors

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our… — Jeffrey Kluger
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. — Shia LaBeouf
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too. — Dolph Lundgren
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. — H. L. Mencken
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage. — Marilyn Monroe
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. — Michel de Montaigne
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. — Lisa Marie Presley
'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists… — Jerry Saltz
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. — George Bernard Shaw
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. — George Bernard Shaw
I have a huge rib cage, which is why I can hold a note out until I'm blue in the face... because I have such… — Jessica Simpson
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. — Herbert Spencer
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches. — John Sununu
With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. — Jeanette Winterson
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. — Libba Bray
A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage. — Sylvia Plath
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. — Billy Corgan
I am a cage, in search of a bird. — Franz Kafka
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my… — Haruki Murakami
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them… — Stephen King
You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it. — Patricia Briggs
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and… — Peter S. Beagle

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