Rings Quotes - Page 34

• Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Freedom, Air, Order

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• You gotta fight. You gotta get out the negative energy. Don't let it build up. You end up screaming at each other over something totally stupid, like, 'Well, why'd you put this spoon in this drawer then?' 'Just to p-s you off, that's why! I got spoons hidden all over this house! Keep it up, and your napkin rings are gonna start disappearing.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Gun, Circles, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive

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• If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

  Sonny Liston

  Clay, Cassius, Murder

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• Doorbells are like a magic game,
  Or the grab-bag at a fair --
  You never know when you hear one ring
  Who may be waiting there.

  Rachel Field

  Games, Waiting, Magic

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• The G.O.P. is desperately seeking someone who can save the party from the fate of nominating Mitt Romney. But every time a non-Mitt throws his hat in the ring, the hat explodes.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Fate, Hats

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• There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

  Floyd Patterson

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "In Defense of Cassius Clay" by Floyd Patterson, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.

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• I will have Derek Fisher wear all 5 of his rings the first time he comes in to talk to Carmelo.

  Phil Jackson

  Firsts, First Time

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• War will make corpses of us all.

  Faramir

  War, Lord, Corpses

  "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing "Do Not Enter" message - except to those looking for flings with married people.

  Emily Yoffe

  People, Dating, Messages

  "Ring of Ire". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. December 12, 2011.

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• A great many of the epic fantasies, from The Lord of the Rings onward, are about war, but to my mind, a lot of it doesn't really deal honestly with the consequences of war, what war does to us, as a society, what war does to us, as individuals, and the struggle for power, in the same way, and what we're fighting for.

  George R. R. Martin

  War, Struggle, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Black And White, Leather Jackets, Sweaters

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• Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.

  Robin Williams

  Men, Race, Black

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• Yes! We finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the public by companies like Enron, Global Crossing, and Tyco we finally got the ring leader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.

  Jon Stewart

  Leader, Fraud, Terror

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• That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between

  Mike Stud

  Hate, Middle Finger, Fingers

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• My class is not a three ring circus.

  Hetty King

  Class, Three, Circus

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• The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Novelists, Fiction

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
  Ang'ring itself and others.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Play, Sorrow

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

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• This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Crush, Nature, Hurt

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.306, Courier Corporation

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• The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.404, Library of America

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• If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Church Bells, Blood, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• The world is the ring of his spells,
  And the play of his miracles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Play, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Sports, Horse

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• In the deep shadow of the porch
  A slender bind-weed springs,
  And climbs, like airy acrobat,
  The trellises, and swings
  And dances in the golden sun
  In fairy loops and rings.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Weed, Spring, Swings

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