Rings Quotes - Page 37

• 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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• You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

  Nick Johnson

  Stars, Winning, Games

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• I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Beautiful, Sky, Telescopes

  "Preflight Interview: Umberto Guidoni". Interview with Kim Dismukes, spaceflight.nasa.gov. April 7, 2002.

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• I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

  Richard Virenque

  Phones, Hands, Numbers

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• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  Armstrong Williams

  Sports, Confidence, Dream

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• George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

  Peter Mayhew

  Character, Imagination, Might

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• The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Vanity, Names

  Herman Melville (2006). “Bartleby the Scrivener: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

  Thomas Gray

  Daughter, Power, Iron

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes; a life of the author; and an essay on his poetry; by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.20

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• I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

  Pat Benatar

  Life, Laughter, Perfect

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• Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

  Johnny Cash

  Valentines Day, Love Is, Burning

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• But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.212, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I was working with these very long-chain ... extended-chain polymers, where you had a lot of benzene rings in them. ... Transforming a polymer solution from a liquid to a fiber requires a process called spinning. ... We spun it and it spun beautifully. It [Kevlar] was very strong and very stiff-unlike anything we had made before. I knew that I had made a discovery. I didn't shout "Eureka!" but I was very excited, as was the whole laboratory excited, and management was excited, because we were looking for something new. Something different. And this was it.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Strong, Science, Discovery

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• How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

  Roman Abramovich

  Math, Germs, Made

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• I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an algebraic object, so I must say goodbye to my home village, the space, but I will always keep it in my heart as a set of maximal ideals.

  Kato

  Goodbye, Home, Heart

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• A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

  Sijie Dai

  Country, Wind, Sky

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• A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

  Cyril Connolly

  Real, Passion, Two

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• When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

  Kuno Becker

  Technique, Use, Body

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• All this talkin' about eatin' is makin' me awful hungry. I'll have two chili burgers with an order of fries, onion rings and a chocolate milk shake. And a Strawberry Ice Cream Sundae-with pickles.

  George Lindsey

  Ice Cream, Order, Two

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• Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Men, Ice Cream

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.29, e-artnow

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• The size of your key ring is the size of your headaches. Si Redd once told me, "Every time you buy something you sell a piece of yourself." Why? Because you have to maintain it, to insure it, to worry about it. So the more you buy, the more you sell a piece of yourself and pretty soon you get so thin you can't do anything. So get rid of all those things and get back to the basics. Everybody has his own basics: it's what he enjoys. Si Redd told me I would "arrive" when I got down to one key. Still working on that!

  Bob Davids

  Keys, Worry, Pieces

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