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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. -- Ed Stoppard
When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. -- Margaret Atwood
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham. -- Neon Hitch
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
Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two. -- Johnny Depp
And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
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. -- J. K. Rowling
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
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
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? -- Michael Moore
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. -- Charlotte Bronte
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
Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete. -- Toni Nadal
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
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
Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming? -- Ally Carter
Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving. -- Meinrad Craighead
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
I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline. -- Florence Welch
My radio's loud like a fire alarm: The floor vibrates, the walls cave in, The bass makes my eardrums seem thin. Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back... You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac! -- LL Cool J
There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore. -- Karan Bajaj
Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house. -- Henry David Thoreau
I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that. -- Matt LeBlanc
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome. -- Oswald Chambers
Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the ceiling is not about to cave in and your oh-so-handsome vampire is not about to become a dust bunny? (Levet) -- Alexandra Ivy
They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time. -- Patricia Highsmith
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 were diving in caves. It wasn't totally safe. -- Jason Statham
I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in. -- Donald Pleasence
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave. -- Duane Chapman
All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. -- Michael Ende
A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in. -- Terrell Owens
I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that. -- Andrea Thompson
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. -- Claire Cameron
I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in. -- Anushka Sharma
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
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
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'm hugely self-critical in the morning. -- Nick Cave
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph. -- Nick Cave
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
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
Please tell me the cave just had a little indigestion. (Kat) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux. -- Walter Darby Bannard
The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man. -- Stephen Gardiner
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. -- Joseph Campbell
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
one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it. -- Simone Weil
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. -- Iris Murdoch
Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. -- Mason Cooley
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
I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right. -- Unarine Ramaru
I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world. -- Tim Burton
If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred. -- Alex Haley
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. -- Stephen Gardiner
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
I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave. -- Dave Grohl
Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned. -- Ernest Hello
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. -- Frank Herbert
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat. -- Lance Morrow
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
Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave. -- Demetri Martin
For Cave Carson, I have a co-writer, so that takes off a lot of the pressure. -- Gerard Way
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
We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last. -- Ray Hudson
Why are you still here?" she asked. "Shouldn't you be in a cave somewhere inspiring people? -- Kristin Cashore
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. -- Aimee Bender
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They laughed at me and then I shot them. I took their cheating, scheming bones to Miller's cave. -- Hank Snow
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
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
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. -- Anne Sexton
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. -- H. G. Wells
I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls. -- Cameron Diaz
I take it that didn't go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
In 6,000 years of storytelling, [people have] gone from depicting hunting on cave walls to depicting Shakespeare on Facebook walls. -- Joe Sabia
Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful. -- Plato
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
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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
The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. -- Joseph Campbell
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. -- Kate Bosworth
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud. -- Marlon Wayans
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
He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret! -- Paul Cornell
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. -- Henry Van Dyke
Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither. -- Diana Gabaldon
Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion. -- Suzy Kassem
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
We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves. -- Ram Dass
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' -- Stephen Rodrick
Hence, loathÃ¨d Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. -- John Milton
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. -- Gloria Swanson
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 sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. -- John Milton
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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