Caves Quotes - Page 19

For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure.

Gerard Way

Pressure

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When you see a picture of a woolly mammoth on a cave wall, that's weirdly similar to a person's lasagna that they thought looked delicious.

Derek Waters

Wall, Lasagna, Persons

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One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in Shakespeare's day was probably viewed as a sort of comic, barbarian type, but into the 19th century there were productions where Caliban was the hero. He's a potential rapist of a minor. Is that a good thing? No, it is not. On the other hand, Prospero's got him cooped up in a cave and tortures him if he doesn't do what Prospero wants. Is that a good thing? No. Shakespeare doesn't let you off easy.

Margaret Atwood

Hero, Hands, Looks

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Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Ray Bradbury

Mistake, Book, Insane

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

J. K. Rowling

Writing, Mushrooms, Long

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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Khalil Gibran

Dark, Water, Evil

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.

Reginald Fessenden

Sleep, Science, Men

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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.

Jack Kornfield

Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke

Summer, Wall, Dark

Theodore Roethke, “In A Dark Time”

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Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Littles, Indigestion, Please

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What are you grinning at?" Katsa demanded for the third or fourth time. "Is the ceiling about to cave in on my head or something? You look like we're both on the verge of an enormous joke." "Katsa, only you would consider the collapse of the ceiling a good joke.

Kristin Cashore

Ceilings, Looks, Grinning

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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.

William Shakespeare

Mountain, Fit, Courtesy

William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.303, Bloomsbury Publishing

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I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Honey, Bears, Wells

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(At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.) Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it’s a bat cave. (Chris)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Spring, Doors, Hands

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in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

Nick Bantock

Pain, Heart, Loss

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The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Ayn Rand

Age, Gone, Projects

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.735, Penguin

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Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

Lisa Kleypas

Nice, Smart, Dark

Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

Holly Black

Real, Player, Games

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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

Rudyard Kipling

Horse, Nice, Lying

Rudyard Kipling (2017). “The Cat that Walked by Himself (English French Edition illustrated): Le Chat qui s’en va tout seul (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.3, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

Chuck Palahniuk

Eye, Shadow, Want

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Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

S.M. Stirling

Real, Men, Thinking

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Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!

Rick Riordan

Luxury, Giving, Chocolate

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I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

Henry Rollins

Falling In Love, Passion, Rivers

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what was fang going to do BLOG about max throwing herself into space so she wouldn't have to kiss him again? NO instead he smashed his fist against the cave wall then grimaced at the pain and stupidity seeing his bloodied knuckles

James Patterson

Wall, Pain, Kissing

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People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.

Martin Amis

Jobs, People, Giving

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