Cage Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

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.