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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative. -- Stephen Malkmus
Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure. -- Gerard Way
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding). -- Dodie Smith
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' -- Stephen Rodrick
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
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. -- Tom Angleberger
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. -- Janet Evanovich
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
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. -- Matt Berninger
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. -- Maria Mitchell
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. -- J. Robbins
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. -- Aleksandar Hemon
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. -- Allison Maslan
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. -- Lillian Russell
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. -- Werner Herzog
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. -- Tenzin Palmo
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. -- Marina Abramovic
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. -- Jack Handey
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. -- Stephen Gardiner
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. -- Duane Chapman
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. -- Margaret Atwood
I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. -- Dave Grohl
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. -- Kate Bosworth
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
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. -- Orson Welles
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. -- Morris West
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. -- Beeban Kidron
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. -- Nina Simone
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. -- Salman Rushdie
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. -- John C. Maxwell
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. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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. -- Jerry Saltz
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
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. -- Diane Ackerman
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. -- Randy Wayne White
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. -- Matt Lauria
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. -- Audrey Hepburn
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. -- Kevin Rudd
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
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. -- Seth Shostak
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. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. -- Jane Gardam
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. -- William Stone
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. -- Deborah Mailman
Plato's cave is full of freaks. -- Jack Johnson
Only cowards cave. The brave get assassinated. -- Donna Lynn Hope
If you are after truth, leave your cave! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses. -- Sylvia Plath
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. -- Marshall McLuhan
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. -- Ed Stoppard
Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool. -- Richelle Mead
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. -- Walter Darby Bannard
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. -- Joseph Campbell
Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever -- George R. R. Martin
I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever" -- George R. R. Martin
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months. -- Laurence J. Peter
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. -- Mason Cooley
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. -- Iris Murdoch
one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it. -- Simone Weil
The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right. -- Unarine Ramaru
I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world. -- Tim Burton
Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller. -- Mahatma Gandhi
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two. -- Johnny Depp
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. -- Ernest Hello
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. -- Stephen Gardiner
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. -- Frank Herbert
The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure. -- Joe Teti
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army. -- Jose Marti
If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred. -- Alex Haley
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat. -- Lance Morrow
Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people? -- Kristin Cashore
I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that. -- Andrea Thompson
We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last. -- Ray Hudson
I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that -- Andrea Thompson
In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms? -- Samuel Beckett
Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave. -- Demetri Martin
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. -- Aimee Bender
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And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I couldn't stop staring at the cave, back where Dimitri was, back where half of my soul was. -- Richelle Mead
In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan. -- Rabindranath Tagore
They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave. -- Hank Snow
Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change, -- Robert Downey, Jr.
God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls. -- Cameron Diaz
If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. -- Dan Rather
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. -- Neon Hitch
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. -- Plato
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. -- Anne Sexton
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. -- Claire Cameron
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. -- H. G. Wells
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. -- Joe Sabia
I take it that didn't go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave. -- John Ashbery
There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore. -- John Hillaby
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. -- Rachel Carson
You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map. -- Dick Vitale
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. -- Joseph Campbell
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. -- Diana Gabaldon
I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave. -- Jared Gilman
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. -- Tarthang Tulku
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. -- Henry Van Dyke
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret! -- Paul Cornell
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud. -- Marlon Wayans
I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave. -- Kat Dennings
The ceiling was curved, giving the space a cave-like feel, and it was either very large, very small, or sort of normal-sized. -- John Stephens
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. -- Gloria Swanson
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. -- Ram Dass
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
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. -- John Milton
I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months. -- Phil Anselmo
Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion. -- Suzy Kassem
Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots. -- Natalie

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