Rings Quotes - Page 39

• Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

  John Dykstra

  Boys, Lord, Episodes

  The 77th Annual Academy Awards, www.imdb.com. February 27, 2005.

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• Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

  Jill Lepore

  Book, Tree, Way

  "Look It Up: Shelving the Encyclopedia Britannica" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

  Claudius Aelianus

  Plato, Clothes, Philosopher

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• My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

  David Milch

  Spiritual, Religious, Sleep

  "The Misfit". Interview with Mark Singer, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 2005.

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• Lay off with the 'You reason, so you don't feel' stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel I am reminded of Göring, who said 'I think with my blood.' See where it led him.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Blood, People

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• The moment when I can see a student's block, name the challenge and watch them become fuller and more dynamic in front of their colleagues' eyes is as rich a moment in a boardroom as it is in a ring.

  Jeff Raz

  Block, Eye, Names

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• I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Fighting, Focus And Concentration, Giving

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• Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.

  Noma Bar

  Thinking, Icons, Different

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• I found myself with a wife and kids, and some of my friends weren't around as much. They weren't calling as much, and I didn't quite know what it was. Someone said, "Yeah, I recently lost one of my closest friends. He got his finger stuck in a wedding ring." And I thought, "Oh, that's what's happening! We're all going off and making our own families."

  Scott Foley

  Kids, Lost Ones, Wife

  Source: collider.com

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• If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

  David Ogilvy

  Art, Winning, Awards

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• My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on.

  Clint Eastwood

  Regret, Father, Golf

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Phones, Appetite For Life, Whole Life

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

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• There's three things that as a professional athlete you want. You want to get to the big leagues, and I accomplished that. Winning a World Series ring, I got that. And then getting to the Hall of Fame. That's everybody's dream. Every athlete, they want to be up there in the Hall of Fame, mentioned with the greatest players to ever play this game.

  Albert Pujols

  Dream, Athlete, Winning

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• Ever since I've been boxing, it's always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can't explain why or how.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Attitude, Boxing, Cases

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• When I leave the NBA, I don't want my legacy to be, 'He won a championship ring.' I want my legacy to say: 'He played for the people. He gave everybody in the world hope that they can be just like him.'

  Gilbert Arenas

  Nba, People, Legacy

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• My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

  Frank Thomas

  Giving, Focus, Individual

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• I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace.

  Jeff Kent

  Mvp, Trophies, Championship

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• You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

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• Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Order, Use, World

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

  William Faulkner

  Bells, Way, Strive

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• One line of dialogue that rings true reveals character in a way that pages of description can't.

  Anne Lamott

  Character, Lines, Pages

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.47, Anchor

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• The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

  Karsten Harries

  Artist, Reality, Kitsch

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• Beware: don't choose the convenient, the comfortable, the respectable, the socially acceptable. Choose something that rings a bell in your heart.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Bells, Respectable

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• Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children, snapped more wedding rings, defiled more innocence, blinded more eyes, dethroned more reason, wrecked more manhood, dishonored more womanhood, broken more hearts, blasted more lives, driven more to suicide and dug more graves than any other evil that has cursed the world.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicide, Children, Home

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• For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

  Mike Tyson

  Sportsmanship, Fans, Institutions

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