Cages Quotes - Page 8

• If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.

  Isak Dinesen

  Animal, Bird, World

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• Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Ambition, Ideas

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Freedom, Bird, Half

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.35

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• Cage is much more disciplined. He made chance a method and used it in constructive ways; I never did that. Everything here is a little more chaotic.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Littles, Way

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use.

  Daniel Cormier

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

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• Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

  Giordano Bruno

  Moving, Mean, Circles

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage.

  Elinor Glyn

  Zoos, Animal, Land

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• The present blitz about drugs - I think it looks very much like how we treated insane people 100 years ago -- throw them in the cage - as if that's the whole answer. And it's not the whole answer.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, Years, People

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• There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

  Murray Kempton

  Children, Men, Earth

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

  Morley Safer

  Real, Lying, Food

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• You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

  Elton John

  Wings, Bird, Adages

  Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

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• Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Iron, Age, Praying

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• Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Devil

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• Actually, when I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event and he happened to be there. People would ask me if I was his son, because I looked like him at that point, so I do remember feeling some connection and just wanting to say, like, 'Papa!'

  Simon Helberg

  Believe, Son, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

  Carly Simon

  Relationship, Clouds, Two

  Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

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• You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

  Bob Dylan

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Drug

  Bob Dylan (2016). “The Lyrics: 1961-2012”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it.

  Cees Nooteboom

  Zoos, Animal, Should Have

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• There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Air, Names

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

  Greg Iles

  Father, Heart, Novel

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• I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.

  Brian Leetch

  Careers, Protection, Reason

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• I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.

  Wally Lamb

  Cnn, Cities, Devil

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• Put God and me in a cage, what do you think who will win. God, because I created him.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, Thinking

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• There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, People, Monkeys

  "Maynard James Keenan Discusses Donkey Punch the Night". Interview with Jason P. Woodbury, www.phoenixnewtimes.com. January 24, 2013.

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• I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Philosophy, Men, Desire

  "Truth is a pathless land". Jiddu Krishnamurti's specch at the opening day of the annual Star Camp at Ommen, Holland, www.jkrishnamurti.org. August 3, 1929.

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• When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Life, Hurt, Bird

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