Quotes about Cave

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. Votes: 3

Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. Votes: 3

For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure. Votes: 3

Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding). Votes: 3

The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' Votes: 3

Omygod, I haven't got years. I'll have to hide in the Bat Cave." "Once you go to the Bat Cave it's forever, babe." Eeek. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave know best. Although I wear a lot of jeans, I've been told that Nick Cave doesn't own a pair and wouldn't be caught dead in denim. Votes: 3

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. Votes: 3

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever. Votes: 3

I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it. Votes: 3

You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose. Votes: 3

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave. Votes: 3

When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better. Votes: 3

Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it. Votes: 3

What you get is the opening of your mind. I'm not preaching any new religion; I'm ritualizing everyday activities. You drink the water. You count the rice. You sit in Crystal Cave. You lie in Levitation Chamber. You push yourself to a new level. Votes: 3

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. Votes: 1

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. Votes: 1

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. Votes: 1

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. Votes: 1

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. Votes: 1

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave. Votes: 1

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. Votes: 1

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. Votes: 1

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. Votes: 1

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever. Votes: 1

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border. Votes: 1

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you. Votes: 1

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Votes: 1

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo. Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read. Votes: 1

The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called. Votes: 1

I don't know if I would personally want to step in the cage and either have my face caved in or cave in somebody else's, but I've met some really beautiful and sensitive and morally pretty stout individuals who happen to be fighters. It's really awesome. Votes: 1

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. Votes: 1

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors. Votes: 1

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed. Votes: 1

Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. Votes: 1

Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission. Votes: 1

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed. Votes: 1

Plato's cave is full of freaks. Votes: 0

Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated. Votes: 0

If you are after truth, leave your cave! Votes: 0

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses. Votes: 0

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. Votes: 0

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool. Votes: 0

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. Votes: 0

You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. Votes: 0

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Votes: 0

Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat) Votes: 0

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever Votes: 0

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever" Votes: 0

The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months. Votes: 0

Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. Votes: 0

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. Votes: 0

one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it. Votes: 0

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right. Votes: 0

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself. Votes: 0

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world. Votes: 0

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. Votes: 0

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. Votes: 0

Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two. Votes: 0

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. Votes: 0

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. Votes: 0

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. Votes: 0

The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure. Votes: 0

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. Votes: 0

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred. Votes: 0

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat. Votes: 0

Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people? Votes: 0

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that. Votes: 0

We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last. Votes: 0

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that Votes: 0

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? Votes: 0

Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave. Votes: 0

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. Votes: 0

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.] Votes: 0

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. Votes: 0

I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was. Votes: 0

In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan. Votes: 0

They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave. Votes: 0

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change, Votes: 0

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave. Votes: 0

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls. Votes: 0

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately. Votes: 0

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. Votes: 0

My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. Votes: 0

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. Votes: 0

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. Votes: 0

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. Votes: 0

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. Votes: 0

In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. Votes: 0

I take it that didn't go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf) Votes: 0

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. Votes: 0

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. Votes: 0

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. Votes: 0

You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map. Votes: 0

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. Votes: 0

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit. Votes: 0

Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. Votes: 0

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave. Votes: 0

Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. Votes: 0

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. Votes: 0

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret! Votes: 0

I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud. Votes: 0

I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave. Votes: 0

The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized. Votes: 0

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. Votes: 0

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Votes: 0

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months. Votes: 0

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion. Votes: 0

Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. Votes: 0

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. Votes: 0

going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche. Votes: 0

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is. Votes: 0

We've had fiction from the time of cave drawings. I think fiction, storytelling, and narrative in general will always exist in some form. Votes: 0

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am. Votes: 0

Over in Afghanistan, Osama stuck his head out of the cave and saw a shadow. So, that means six more weeks of bombing. Votes: 0

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend. Votes: 0

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes! Votes: 0

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'. Votes: 0

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain! Votes: 0

they told her to grave him in her heart and punished her by walking to the monster's cave on her feet,unfaire life Votes: 0

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. Votes: 0

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons. Votes: 0

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt. Votes: 0

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. Votes: 0

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. Votes: 0

There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated. Votes: 0

There's this cave and all humanity is in it and there's this terribly bright light at the other end and everybody's afraid of it. Votes: 0

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being. Votes: 0

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave Votes: 0

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, "” the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land. Votes: 0

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. Votes: 0

You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark. Votes: 0

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect. Votes: 0

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God." Votes: 0

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. Votes: 0

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead. Votes: 0

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology. Votes: 0

The Mirror interviewed one of Osama bin Laden's sons and said bin Laden has 42 children. That's going to happen when you sleep in a different cave every night. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka! Votes: 0

Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal. Votes: 0

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave. Votes: 0

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along. Votes: 0

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring. Votes: 0

Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you. Votes: 0

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence. Votes: 0

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound. Votes: 0

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are lifetimes where one goes off into the Himalayas and meditate in a cave. But this is not really one of those lifetimes for most people. Our earth has changed. Votes: 0

And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear whose skull had been improperly enshrined? Votes: 0

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The cave of Ozma has been discovered, and she is to come back and rule our Oz, and the idiotic Scarecrow can go stuff himself. Hah!Good one: a Scarecrow stuffing himself." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out. Votes: 0

How could a guy sitting in a cave in Afghanistan, have... plotted so perfectly the hijacking of four planes and then guaranteed that three of them would end up precisely on their targets? Votes: 0

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Music is one of the sharpest blades that we have to cut through the thick entangled web of the external mind and lead us back into the silent cave of our own Heart. Votes: 0

But it's natural for men to compete against each other. We've been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are. Votes: 0

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?... Votes: 0

What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork? Votes: 0

Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me. Votes: 0

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew. Votes: 0

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. Votes: 0

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary. Votes: 0

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave. Votes: 0