Rings Quotes - Page 27

• Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

  Sara Genn

  Phones, Years

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• Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

  Sergei Bongart

  Color, Bells, Bigs

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• Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

  Wallace Stegner

  Dream, Memories, Eye

  Wallace Stegner (2013). “Crossing to Safety”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Rivals, Tease

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

  John Milton

  Night, Rose, Darkness

  John Milton, Thomas Newton (1809). “The poetical works of John Milton: from the text of Doctor Newton with the life of the author”, p.325

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• The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

  John Milton

  Clouds, Elements, Landscape

  John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.37

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• The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Freedom, Responsibility, Self

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• My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Men, Mustache, Spurs

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• Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Civilization, Numbers, Blue

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• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Dream, Blessed, Eden

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

  John Clare

  Sweet, Fall, World

  John Clare (1821). “The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems”, p.166

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• Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.

  Bhartrhari

  Flower, Men, Hair

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• The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Freedom, Men, Order

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

  Tibor Fischer

  Doors, People, Bells

  Tibor Fischer (1997). “The Thought Gang”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

  Mae West

  Life, Might, Brass

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

  Edward Albee

  Couple, Thinking, Play

  "Conversations with Edward Albee". Book edited by Philip C. Kolin, 1988.

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• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Fire, Lakes

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

  Ramakrishna

  World, Way, Scratches

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 548, 1960.

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• I tried to read the Bible, I did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.

  Kevin Nealon

  Christianity, Lord, Felt

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• The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this.

  Tim Allen

  Successful, Phones, Oysters

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• And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.

  Edward Lear

  Pigs, Lovely, Owl

  'The Jumblies' (1871)

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• Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Years, Tree

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.107

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• Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

  Gerald Massey

  Marriage, Heart, Wife

  Gerald Massey (1861). “Havelock's March and Other Poems”, p.259

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• The greatness of Marciano in the ring was defined by the way he prepared for a fight, his ability to punch and take a punch.

  Rocky Marciano

  Fighting, Greatness, Way

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• The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman [David Cameron] may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist...

  Gordon Brown

  Heavyweights, Gentleman, Fists

  Gordon Brown during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. November 15, 2006.

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