1.
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka
I am an enclosure, in search of a feathered creature.
2.
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
Dorothea Dix
3.
Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.
Massimo Vignelli
4.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Spiro T. Agnew
5.
Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
Charles Spurgeon
6.
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
10.
It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
11.
The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but it can no longer prey upon us.
Massad Ayoob
12.
We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
George Lucas
13.
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.
Rob Bell
15.
One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.
Viola Spolin
16.
Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
John Huston
18.
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
19.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Horace
20.
The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
Will Cuppy
21.
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
Aldous Huxley
22.
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.
Peter Block
23.
Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge the seven shall birth, The forge and the dove shall break the cage, And death unleash through Hera's rage.
Rick Riordan
24.
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
Neil Peart
25.
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
26.
I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!
Daniel Ricciardo
29.
The most disgusting four letter word in the English language is 'cage'.
Philip Wollen
30.
Prosthetics just felt very foreign to me: You wear them on your shoulders, strap them to your chest, and they're heavy and uncomfortable. If someone gave you a hug, you'd miss that touch. They were more like a cage for me.
Jessica Cox
31.
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.
Rumi
32.
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
Julian Assange
33.
The sound of the harpsichord resembles that of a bird-cage played with toasting-forks.
Thomas Beecham
34.
Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode.
Lil Wayne
35.
Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.
Jose Aldo
36.
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage
Richard Paul Evans
37.
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum
38.
John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.
Lester Bangs
39.
Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit
Pope Francis
40.
Running made me feel like a bird let out of a cage, I loved it that much.
Priscilla Welch
41.
Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.
Sarah Waters
42.
How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
William Blake
43.
You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.
Tori Amos
44.
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
Nicanor Parra
45.
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Hunter S. Thompson
46.
Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
John Fowles
47.
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.
Earle Brown
48.
It's better to die free than live life in a cage.
Jordan Dane
50.
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
Timothy Spall