Captive Quotes

145 quotes by 133 authors

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world… — Gore Vidal
With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new… — James Wolcott
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. — Howard Rheingold
All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its… — Jack Kirby
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that… — Carter G. Woodson
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable. — Tom Robbins
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and… — Zbigniew Herbert
I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm… — Temple Grandin
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say — George Eliot
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for… — Salman Rushdie
We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterdayâ€™s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of… — Daphne du Maurier
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley
The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Faites de beaux rÃªves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to… — Tom Robbins
It was ironic; he held her captive, yet sheâ€™d captivated him. — Jeaniene Frost
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. â€¦ You are… — Daniel Quinn
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
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into… — Charles Dickens
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

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