Cave Quotations

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.

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.

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.

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

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.

You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

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.

I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

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.

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.

Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't ask me why, I always felt very strongly that the point for me was to find a way to live a truly spiritual life in the modern day world and be able to work with all the positive aspects of our cultural and technological advancements.

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.

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.

If you think about evolution, sleep, at some time, was a dangerous undertaking. You lie down in your cave or shelter, and along comes a predator and has you for dinner. Many creatures do not sleep or sleep while standing so they can escape from dangerous situations.

No cave is deep enough to escape the patient justice of America,

People would come to Horse Cave and get on a coach to ride to Mammoth Cave. Salesmen came to Horse Cave and stayed at the Owens Hotel.

I don't have a problem with them having a dam. The problem is standing water on the road bed. Eventually, that water will erode the road bed and the road will then break up and cave in.

Mr. Cave obviously has a huge investment in this land, and he can't sit on it forever.

Getting down early like that. And this late in the year, it would have been pretty easy to cave in a little bit. To our kids credit, they didn't do that. It's good to get that first conference win.

If Boeing does cave and give them something like what they want, it will be a bit of a hollow victory because in the long run it will probably result in increased outsourcing.

I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everywhere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years.- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.

From the cave of Bethlehem there rises today an urgent appeal to the world not to yield to mistrust, suspicion and discouragement, even though the tragic reality of terrorism feeds uncertainties and fears.

Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

If the consumer starts to cave in, the 'double dip' aura will come back. I think that (the Consumer Credit report) is what created this final selling.

There is an upper level. This is the main floor. We have a flooded basement. So, it is a tri-level cave along that fault line. It goes 30 miles each direction and is called the Ten Degree Fault.

Unless they were living in a cave or something, they have to know that all this has gone on.

Sue the industry and have them cave in or face imminent financial ruin by having to defend an avalanche of legally dubious lawsuits and bad publicity. That's their game plan,

Plato's cave is full of freaks, demanding refunds for the things that they see.

Or do citizens want to go back to the cave man days of using batons as clubs?

People have driven an hour to get here from Cave Creek. This is a big city. Three and a half million people live here. People are sick of strip malls, power malls and chain restaurants.

I think the Europeans will cave but it will be a slow-motion cave.

I was in a cave and I needed to draw some pictures on the wall about what my journey was, and that drive, that need, led me to acting.

We have the warmest cave in the Ozarks.

We know more about outer space than we know about our Earth, ... Talking to the real people, the cave divers who do a lot in the West Isles, they truly are Earth's astronauts. They're out there exploring Earth and trying to find new places that nobody's ever seen before, and it's pretty amazing. What they've done in the last 10 years is groundbreaking.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

While a strike of a couple of weeks might be doable, some kind of accommodation would have to be reached. If Boeing does cave and give them something like what they want, it will be a bit of a hollow victory because in the long run it will probably result in increased outsourcing.

We're not going to cave in to the excessive demands of certain powers,

We're not going to tell people to hide in a cave and only come out at night. It's not realistic.

The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

Bin Laden himself feels more secure in coming out of his cave and asserting to the world that he's alive and still relevant.

At the very back of the cave there is a 50-foot pit. That is where he fell.

You go back to the start of time. One cave guy was fighting another cave guy because his club was bigger than his or his woman had longer hair. Thats competition.

I want bad actors who have violated the public trust to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, ... What I will not do is cave into political pressure and start this process until I have a complete picture of what the problem is.

Off the field I thought we had a phenomenal year. With the rainy weather we had early and the struggles we had late, the fans really stuck with us. From season tickets to picnics to renting the Bat Cave to sponsorships, it was a great year.

Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the emergency's head.

No amount of pressure is going to make him cave in.

It's naive all of a sudden to say that the White House just realized that there's going to be a tough confirmation fight in the Senate. Of course there's pressure from both sides, but he's not going to cave to pressure from the left or the right.

David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.

David Geffen learned early on that his voice was his most powerful weapon. He leaned that if he screamed at people, they would cave in and he would get things he wanted.

It's good to see them get rewarded, finally, because ... there are players that cave in at some point.

They can make you look bad. But I thought the key was that we didn't cave in.

In the cave of intuitive wisdom I sit, absorbed in the silent trance of the Primal Void. I have obtained my seat in the heavens.

Investors have become completely convinced that we need to see the housing canary buckle under a little bit. If the housing market softens, then investors will view that as the canary in the cave that indicates that central bankers will not have to be as aggressive.

Honestly, I think it goes back to the cave man. He had to collect to survive.

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.

There was an explosion inside the cave and the tunnel gave in, trapping everybody.

And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together the way we are - where one person does the theological way out and suggestions, and the other person goes into the cave and does the fiction writing.

The Brothers Grimm is a work of fantasy by one of the true visionary filmmakers working today, whereas The Cave is just one big silly, scary action movie.

These are people who are anti-globalization, anti-trade and anti-technology. If they have their way, we would all go back to the cave and forage for food with a spear. That's what we're dealing with here.

They picked up a trail from him walking and that's what got them onto him. They backtracked on the trail a little and actually saw the snow cave that he had been in.

Those were big days. We had lost two straight and we're not used to losing, so you could go one way or the other. I don't think this team would ever give up, but I think a lot of teams could say, 'We lost two straight to end the season' and could kind of cave in. But we kind of took it the other way and wanted to improve.

He's not living in a cave - he's living somewhere with more amenities. His most recent statements show a Talmudic attention to the news.

You know, when you welcome a child into the world, you witness the birth of your child, and you've been there for that nine month period, you realize that there's no doubt, there's no question that women are the stronger of the sexes. There's no doubt. Any man who had to carry a child for nine months would cave in about month or two. And then delivery, you know labor? Yeah, it's over with. So yeah, I would certainly like to explore that. Sure.