Cages Quotes

367 Cages quotes by 307 unique authors

Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly… — Aravind Adiga
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask? — Ken Kesey
Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key? — Gregory Maguire
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage. — Victor Hugo
A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person. — Sharon Creech
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. — Ray Bradbury
Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my… — Janet Evanovich
Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then… — Jennifer Rardin
I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt… — Laurie Halse Anderson
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… — Conan O'Brien
Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose. — Rachel Vincent
That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's… — Laura Whitcomb
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… — Eve Ensler
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was,… — Sylvia Plath
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

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