Cage Quotes

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

It gives us a look into a world that's very much like 'Traffic' was for drugs, this movie is for gun running. Dark at times, but I think Nic Cage is an incredible person to watch and very entertaining.

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

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.

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.

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the 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.

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.

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.

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

You can cage the singer but not the song.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars 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?

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

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

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

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

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

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.