Brass Ring Quotes

#1. It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.

Katie Couric

#2. I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.

Michael Welch

#3. I've had so much success. I had something to say, I got to say it, people heard it, and they agreed. That's every artist's dream. That's the brass ring.

Joss Whedon

#4. If you're in the room, you've grabbed the brass ring. You are all winners.

George Clooney

#5. I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

Dan Quayle

#6. Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

Barbara Freethy

#7. Never had anyone said, Listen. Life is short. Pretend your body is still in its twenties. Jump for the brass ring. Swing for those bleachers. Dive into the deep end of the pool. Act like a fool if you must, but at least *live*.

Cathie Pelletier

#8. For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

Kate Walsh

#9. Being Governor of a state is generally considered a prelude or stepping stone to a U.S. Senate seat. Not so in Alabama. The governor's office has always seemed to be the ultimate brass ring

Steve Flowers

#10. It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Julie Andrews

#11. It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Samuel L. Jackson

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

Mae West

#13. I do happen to have a good life ... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

George Clooney

#14. I'm a weak character, without guts or ambition. I caught the brass ring and it shocked me to find out it wasn't gold. A guy like me has one big moment in his life, one perfect swing on the high trapeze. Then he spends the rest of his time trying not to fall off the sidewalk into the gutter.

Raymond Chandler

#15. You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Sandra Lee

#16. Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

Jason Calacanis

#17. I couldn't write. I grew tense. I was strangled by my own ego, by my petty desire for what I perceived to be the literary brass ring. I was missing the point, of course. The reward is in the doing.

Dani Shapiro

#18. Fred at six years old thought her the nicest girl in the world, making her his wife with a brass ring which he had cut from an umbrella.

George Eliot

#19. It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.

Jim Webb

#20. Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

Albert Einstein

#21. The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

James David Barber

#22. They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.

Joshua Ferris

#23. Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

Celia Green

#24. Did you notice the phrase by his power in that last Bible verse? This is what makes The Daniel Plan different from other approaches. It is built on trusting in God's power to help you change, not merely your own willpower.

Rick Warren

#25. His hand still rested on her breast, but his fingers had stilled. The touch that had been so agitating now felt comforting. As though he soothed her by it.

Meredith Duran

#26. Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Rumi

#27. In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

Douglas A. Warner III

#28. What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

Theresa Villiers

#29. Like most healthy men he thought that any illness was death

Angela Thirkell

#30. When you want to break a board, cracking it in the middle is only the first step. Success comes when you bounce up and down with all your might until the board snaps in half

Arthur Golden

#31. There was no light to hide their act. VI

Stephen King

#32. Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

John Wooden

#33. A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The

Angela Duckworth