Rings Quotes - Page 17

• The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle in the heat-waves, and seem to melt like the bristles of a melting hairbrush. The hills turn powder-blue and gauzy. Mirages resembling pools of mica and shallows of crystal water appear at the far ends of streets and roads. Punctually at eleven every burning morning, the cicadas begin to drill the air, to drill themselves also, ceaselessly and relentlessly, to death in one short day after seven long years underground.

  Hal Porter

  Morning, Nature, Air

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• The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Actors, Circus

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• What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

  Kobe Bryant

  Perfection, Doe, Looks

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• You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fate, Evil, Waiting

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

  D. A. Carson

  Running, Boys, Doors

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.37, Baker Academic

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• At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

  Simon van der Meer

  Team, Hockey, Study Group

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• Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

  Al Stewart

  Travel, Land, Long

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• Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is wonderful in the sight of the other; they feel romantic affection for no one else; they stretch their finances to buy a diamond ring; they marry. All is bliss-that is, for a season. Then little inconsequential activities lead to criticism. Little flaws are magnified into great torrents of faultfinding; they fall apart, they separate, and then with rancor and bitterness they divorce.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Falling In Love, Anger, Divorce

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• By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

  Esther Williams

  Home, Eye, Night

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• It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're running round the rings of an alien world and then a haunted house. There's new Cybermen, new Ice Warriors and a never before attempted journey to the centre of the TARDIS. And in the finale, the Doctor's greatest secret will at last be revealed! If this wasn't already our most exciting year it would be anyway!

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Warrior, Journey

  "‘Doctor Who’ Premiere: Poster Of The Doctor And New Companion". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

  Sandra Lee

  Needs, Spoons, Silver

  FaceBook post by Sandra Lee from Jan 14, 2013

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• A ring is a halo on your finger.

  Douglas Coupland

  Halos, Fingers

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• If you’re in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

  George Clooney

  Rooms, Winner, Brass

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• I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Drama, School, Phones

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• It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

  Julie Andrews

  Enough, Brass, Enjoy

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• Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper.

  Martin Henderson

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Home, Writing, Phones

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

  Henry Ian Cusick

  Mean, Wedding Ring

  "Talking 'Lost' with Henry Ian Cusick". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 28, 2010.

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• I have candy all the time. I live on gummy bears and peach rings. They're like dried-up peaches, only dipped in sugar. You can get 'em at gas stations. They're like 99 cents for four bags. And cashews. I love cashews.

  Miley Cyrus

  Gas Stations, Bags, Ems

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• Bright-eyed Fancy, hov'ring o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

  Thomas Gray

  Fancy, Breathe

  Thomas Gray (1859). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray”

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• Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color.

  Charles Darwin

  Nature, Ocean, Reflection

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 7: The Geology of the Voyage of the H. M. S. Beagle, Part I: Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs”, p.3, NYU Press

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughter, Shining, Tears

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• I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.

  Bob Hope

  Men, Hands, Ruined

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• You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.

  Jack Dempsey

  Champion, Gongs, Ready

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