Caves famous quotes
04-29-2025
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
-- Aimee Bender -
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
-- Amanda Palmer -
I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that
-- Andrea Thompson -
When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
-- Angus Young -
Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
-- Antonin Artaud -
We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.
-- Bon Scott -
She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.
-- Brandon Mull -
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.
-- Charles Lyell -
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
-- Claire Cameron -
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
-- Dan Rather -
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
-- David Massengill -
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
-- Diana Gabaldon -
You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.
-- Dick Vitale -
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
-- Duane Chapman -
If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.
-- Eddie McGuire -
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.
-- Ernest Hello -
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
-- Gloria Swanson -
Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.
-- Guo Jun -
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
-- H. G. Wells -
To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
-- Hakim Bey -
They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave.
-- Hank Snow -
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time.
-- Hideo Kojima -
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.
-- Iris Murdoch -
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.
-- Jack London -
Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.
-- Jason Silva -
Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?
-- Javed Akhtar -
If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
-- Joel Garreau -
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.
-- John Hillaby -
I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
-- John Milton -
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
-- John Milton -
There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.
-- John Ortberg -
I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.
-- John Perry Barlow -
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.
-- Joy Williams -
I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!
-- Kane -
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
-- Karen Russell -
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
-- Karl Pilkington -
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
-- Lance Morrow -
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.
-- Libba Bray -
I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
-- Marlee Matlin -
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
-- Marlon Wayans -
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Oh, the ongoing love affair between hair and mouths. Hair always goes for the mouth. The mouth opens, and hair says, "I'm going in! I'm going in!" like a manic cave diver.
-- Maureen Johnson -
Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely.
-- Michael Buckley -
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
-- Mo Rocca -
Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.
-- N.D. Wilson -
The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.
-- Neon Hitch -
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!
-- Paul Cornell -
If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.
-- Paul Rand -
No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.
-- Peter Ackroyd -
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.
-- Plato -
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.
-- Ram Dass -
I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.
-- Randall Jarrell -
Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change,
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'
-- Rudyard Kipling -
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.
-- Stephen Gardiner -
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
-- Stephen Gardiner -
Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.
-- Suzy Kassem -
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters.
-- Tarthang Tulku -
What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.
-- Temple Grandin -
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.
-- Terry Pratchett -
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
-- Theodore Sturgeon -
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
-- Thomas Gray -
Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.
-- Wes Bentley -
Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr. -
Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.
-- Andrew Wight -
I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.
-- Daniel O'Sullivan -
People have been sharing pictures of their food for as long as there's been caves.
-- Derek Waters -
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 -
I've hated cockroaches my entire life.Tweeting jokes about it helps me cope, in a way. I'm not as jumpy killing cave crickets as I used to be. I still jump plenty though.
-- Drew Magary -
That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.
-- Ian Astbury -
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
-- Isaiah -
When I started on the path, too, I really thought I would become a yogi in a cave, but I didn't have clarity about my path. When I evolved in the ashram for six months, I learned a lot, but I realized that it was not my natural state of being. So, I came back to the world.
-- Karan Bajaj -
Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.
-- Mick Miller -
Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.
-- Prudentius -
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.
-- Gerald Stern -
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.
-- Gerald Stern
