Cage Quotes

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

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 insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.