Clinking Quotes

#1. Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails!

Ransom Riggs

#3. There are five forms of wealth: economic wealth, relationship wealth, physical wealth, adventure wealth and what I call psychic wealth (which is all about filling your life with meaning).

Robin S. Sharma

#4. My bones are like cubes of ice clinking together, chilling me to my core.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

Jeremy Renner

#6. You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them.

Steve Erickson

#7. This is a cardinal Ya-Ya rule: you must meet each person's eyes while clinking glasses in a toast. Otherwise, the ritual has no meaning, it's just pure show. And that is something the Ya-Yas are not.

Rebecca Wells

#8. War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.

Eugene Jarecki

#9. Signs are my food, drink are my tears; Clinking of fetters such music would crave; Stink and close air, away my life wears Innocency is all the hope I have. - Sir Thomas Wyatt

David Johnson

#10. Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of ... you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.

Joanna Newsom

#11. If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

Lemony Snicket

#12. Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne.

It's a party, shaking down the dawn.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. Crowds are influenced mainly by images produced by the judicious employment of words and formulas

Gustave Le Bon

#14. Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.

Mason Cooley

#15. You are capable beyond measure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Idina Menzel

#17. Embrace the fact that we are human. We are flawed, we aren't invincible, but we are resilient, and we are alive. So we need to live as such

Brandon Lawrence

#18. A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

Ice Cube

#19. Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.

Barbara Kingsolver