Rings Quotes - Page 33

• Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Dream, Team

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.

  Tomas Transtromer

  Mirrors, Tree, Faces

  Tomas Transtromer (2011). “The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems”, p.249, New Directions Publishing

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• People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

  Dave Eggers

  Phones, Talking, Control Someone

  Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.

  Jay-Z

  Mother, Brother, Cutting

  Song: December 4th, Album: The Black Album

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• In the ring, it's fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I'd rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.

  Hulk Hogan

  Fun, Love You, Kids

  "The Hulk is back and ready if needed". Interview with Chris Varias, www.wtsp.com. December 31, 2014.

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• Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

  William Shakespeare

  Gossip, Foul

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Macbeth”, Simon and Schuster

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• Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sorrow, Weight

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• We could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words.

  Janet Frame

  Character, Thinking, World

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Right Man

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3595, Delphi Classics

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• I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.

  Philip Reeve

  Eight, Age, Teens

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I love rings, but I cant wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

  Justin Tuck

  Mean, Years, Wife

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• I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

  Mark Teixeira

  Beautiful, Children, Three

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• Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple... Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.

  George R. R. Martin

  Leadership, Wise, Kings

  "George R.R. Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. April 23, 2014.

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• As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Political, Wish

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• Through the hollow globe, a ring
  of frayed rusty scrapiron,
  is it the sea that shines?
  Is it a road at the world's edge?

  Denise Levertov

  Sea, Shining, World

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• So Orpheus did for his owne bride,
  So I unto my selfe alone will sing,
  The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

  Edmund Spenser

  Singing, Woods, Answers

  Edmund Spenser (1840). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings”, p.420

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• By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
  A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
  And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

  Ovid

  Practice, Water, Use

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• Year chases year, decay pursues decay,
  Still drops some joy from with'ring life away;
  New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Views, Years

  Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Arthur Murphy (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: An essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by A. Murphy] Poems.- v. 2-4. The rambler.- v. 5. The idler. History of Rasselas, prince of Abissinia.- v. 6-8. The lives of the English poets.- v. 9. Lives of eminent persons. Letters, selected from the collection of Mrs. Piozzi and others. Prayers and meditations.- v. 10. Philological tracts, &c.- v. 11. Miscellaneous tracts, &c. Dedications. Reviews and criticisms. Tales of imagination. The adventurers.-”, p.217

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• What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a reader has outgrown fairy tales, and we do not want the fantastic and the impossible. So I say to you that a novel must stand up to the adult tests of reality.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Truth, Mean, Reality

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• Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
  And I must think a little of the past:
  When I was ten I told a stinking lie
  That got a black boy whipped.

  Allen Tate

  Christmas, Lying, Love You

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Jewels! Today each twig is important,
  each ring, each infection, each form
  is all that the gods must have meant.

  Anne Sexton

  Nature, Jewels, Important

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Divorce, Years

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When I said.
  A rose is a rose is a rose.
  And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what
  did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed
  a noun.

  Gertrude Stein

  Rose, Poetry, Nouns

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.22, Vintage

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• See the wild birds on the wing,
  Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
  When you feel like singin', sing--
  Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Wings, Bird

  Frank Lebby Stanton, “Keep A-Goin'!”

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• A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.

  Kate Millett

  Change, Real, Circles

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.360, University of Illinois Press

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