Top 100 Ring Quotes
#1. Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
Bill Keller
#2. I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
Jodi Picoult
#3. When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#4. Once in Persia reigned a king
Who upon his signet ring
Graved a maxim true and wise,
Which if held before the eyes
Gave him counsel at a glance
Fit for every change and chance.
Solemn words, and these are they:
"Even this shall pass away."
Theodore Tilton
#5. Breaking up could sit in front of you for a while. It was a ring of fire you had to at last decide to run through. You finally got tired of standing there, looking at it, feeling the heat, tired enough to finally just let go. Getting burned at last seemed better than the waiting to get burned.
Deb Caletti
#6. I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'
Adam Ferrara
#7. He wore the same shorts and t-shirts to work for days on end. He refused to wear shoes with laces. He refused to wear watches or even his wedding ring. To calm himself at work he often blared heavy metal music.
Michael Lewis
#8. There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.
Richard Wilbur
#9. A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim ... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#10. Seriously, I grew up a fan of Hulk Hogan, and I think I bring some of his best values to the ring ... the values of a superhero. Always do your best. Never give up ... I think kids want to believe in that, and they should believe in that.
John Cena
#12. He held up the ring and the light from the rising sun caught the stone and Froi thought he had never seen anything so beautiful. It was the ring that had given him a life he could never have imagined. It was all things magnificent about Lumatere.
Melina Marchetta
#13. I still hankered to be back on the racecourse, but getting the funds for yet another assault on the ring was proving difficult. Could I track Sting down?
James Berryman
#14. Don't kiss the floor, unless you want to put a ring on it
Emma Iadanza
#15. I should wonder what courage - which is the virtue they most value - has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.
Veronica Roth
#16. I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they weren't here, and just now - like a knife-slit - they are here, still dripping sweet blood.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#17. Look, how this ring encompasseth finger.
Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;
Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.
William Shakespeare
#18. They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.
Stephen Dorff
#19. Lying on a ring of onion, a tomato slice exposed its seedy smile, one she remembers to this moment.
Toni Morrison
#20. you are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer
John Geddes
#21. You're a ring-wearing, save-yourself-for-marriage kind of girl. I dig that.
E.C. Newman
#22. Wow, I whisper. Hello, beautifully gorgeous ring that needs to be on my finger.
Jillian Dodd
#23. 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
#24. There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The Ring 1)
Deyth Banger
#25. I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.
Katie Pavlich
#26. A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.
Kate Millett
#27. So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.
Frank O'Connor
#28. Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.
Jerry Izenberg
#29. This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.
Matthew Norman
#30. I knew the promise I was about to break.the one that started with a question. Words would be spoken. A vow would be made. A ring would be exchanged and a kiss would be placed
Shey Stahl
#31. My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.
Arthur Symons
#33. I'd taken it off and hurled it across the room, vowing never to touch it again. And I wouldn't have, if the damn thing hadn't gotten caught in my vacuum cleaner and destroyed it ... the vacuum cleaner, I mean. The ring was fine. Damn it.
Anonymous
#34. I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at ping pong with their husband? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.
Elizabeth Taylor
#35. Patch's eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his hand, turning it over slowly.
"Swear you'll never stop loving me," I whispered.
Ever so slightly, he nodded.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#36. There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring
Muhammad Ali
#37. What's your name?" Scapegrace asked.
"Gerald," said the man.
Scapegrace pondered. Gerald the zombie just didn't have that fear-inducing ring to it. "I'm going to call you Thrasher," he said.
Derek Landy
#38. Marriage is a conspiracy from Tiffany, florists, the diamond industry, and Christian fundamentalists. The only thing good about it is the diamond ring, the wedding gifts, and the honeymoon.
Suzanne Finnamore
#39. And, of course, this time, there was no question of him not succeeding - he intended to get his ring on her finger no matter how long it took. This
Stephanie Laurens
#40. If you're an actor, even a successful one, you're still waiting for the phone to ring.
Kevin Bacon
#41. Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message."
Which is true. I mean ... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.
Sophie Kinsella
#42. And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together
Craig Silvey
#43. Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.
John Milton
#44. I'm already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.
Jill Shalvis
#45. Trans women are getting killed EVERYDAY & you think the struggle is over because you can put a ring on a finger?!
CeCe McDonald
#46. Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Thomas Mann
#47. A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
Enid Blyton
#48. Wave of sound swept over the ring as every man in the convocation shouted together.
Wilbur Smith
#49. When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.
David Christian
#50. Standing still is never a good option. Not in the ring, and not in life ... When you stop moving, you're done.
Georges St-Pierre
#51. The silky dressing gown was open, revealing his smooth, bare chest and, Curtis couldn't but notice, dark nipples, one of which - oh, good God - was pierced with a silver ring.
K.J. Charles
#52. I don't use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.
Dave Morin
#53. Until 1982, Canada Day was known as Dominion Day. I always thought that had more of a ring to it. Beyond the zippy alliteration, it reminded us citizens that our domain of orderly domesticity was graced by the dominant power of our 'Dominus.'
Rick Moranis
#54. One does not simply ring Roland.
Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next.
Ilona Andrews
#55. I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark.
Anne Lamott
#56. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.
Flann O'Brien
#57. Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
Bobby Jindal
#58. yes,' said Frodo. 'But do you remember Gandalf's words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#60. What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
Helen Keller
#61. Now ring that bloke of yours to tell him you're staying out all night, then have another drink. In fact, have six. It would please me no end to see you get hammered on Alicia's father's bill. And so I did.
Jojo Moyes
#62. It was music of a kind, at the same time soothing and invigorating, such a human place and time, when no one texted at the table or had an Internet to surf while they ate or carried a cell phone the ring of which could never be ignored.
Dean Koontz
#63. The Yulemas Ball. Maybe earlier. Maybe even Samhuinn, when I brought you this ring. But Yulemas was the first time I realized I didn't like the idea of you with - with someone else.
Sarah J. Maas
#64. Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#65. Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator or whatever gizmos he'd got at the time to make it sound a little more electronic.
John Leeson
#66. When they [court announcers] say, 'This is the world No. 2,' it just doesn't sound right to me because either I'm No. 1 or I'm a grand slam champion. I'm not world No. 2. I just don't like the ring of it when I'm introduced on court because I've been up there for so, so long.
Roger Federer
#67. When healthy people fall in love, they buy a bunch of flowers or an engagement ring and go and Do Something About It. When poets fall in love, they make a list of their loved one's body parts and attach similes to them.
Mark Forsyth
#68. Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
Alfred Gough
#69. The Bridge
Between now and now,
between I am and you are,
the word bridge.
Entering it
you enter yourself:
the world connects
and closes like a ring.
From one bank to another,
there is always
a body stretched:
a rainbow.
I'll sleep beneath its arches.
Octavio Paz
#70. Some days it's best
to do nothing
but ring like a tapped bell.
Ivan M. Granger
#71. if he had used all his power to guard Mordor, so that none could enter, and bent all his guile to the hunting of the Ring, then indeed hope would have faded: neither Ring nor bearer could long have eluded him. But
J.R.R. Tolkien
#72. Inside the ring Enson thinks outside the ring Enson's a pussy.
Enson Inoue
#73. I feel when I say I can do something and carry this opportunity to make movies, it's because I took the time to study it. A boxer can't just jump in the ring. You've got to practice and practice and practice.
RZA
#74. Legends are lessons; they ring with truths.
Elinor
#75. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them, - Ding-dong, bell.
William Shakespeare
#76. Poor Mr. Baggins - it was a weary long time that he lived in that place all alone, and always in hiding, never daring to take off his ring,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#77. You know, you want to win and you want a ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.
Michael Strahan
#78. To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
David M. Shoup
#79. My flesh and scalp started to ring and tingle and I became someone other than myself, or I became my second self, and this person was highly pleased to be stepping from the murk and into the living world where he might do just as he wished.
Patrick DeWitt
#80. I do feel immigration will probably be dealt with as long as [the solution] doesn't provide amnesty ... Five years ago, all hell broke loose ... This year, I thought phones would ring off the hook again. They really haven't. I think everybody realizes we have a problem.
Johnny Isakson
#81. There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.
Penelope Cruz
#82. Tamani pulled out his cell.
"He has an IPhone?" her mom whispered as the second ring sounded in Laurel's ear.
Laurel nodded. "I was saving that little tidbit of ammunition the next time we discussed me getting a cell.
Aprilynne Pike
#83. The stranded Daoine Sidhe knights of the Dark Court gathered at the ring of ancient standing stones under the pale light of the harvest moon.
Whenever the Daoine Sidhe gathered, they raised the natural energies of the world around them.
Thea Harrison
#84. 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
#85. Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
Zadie Smith
#86. What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring.
Don Shula
#87. This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.
Phyllis Diller
#88. I entered this ring Randy Orton, Legend Killer. When all was said and done, I left as Randy Orton, Legend.
Randy Orton
#89. Just then, my phone started ringing. The ring must have been damaged by the water as well, so now it had a high, keening note - kind of the sound I imagine a mermaid might make if you punched her in the face.
Maureen Johnson
#90. You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.
J.M. Coetzee
#91. Tell him my future is in his hands and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on me, even unto half my kingdom. Well, call it ten quid. Jeeves would exert himself with ten quid on the horizon, what?
P.G. Wodehouse
#92. Me! And here in the wild I have you: two halflings, and a host of men at my call, and the Ring of Rings. A pretty stroke of fortune! A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. Above the clouds I lift my wing
To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
To Earth I bring;
Then let me soar and sing!
Edmund Clarence Stedman
#94. Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.
Karin Slaughter
#95. I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
Michael Grade
#96. Ring!" he shrieked at the vapid instrument.
Barry Hannah
#97. Elrond," Bruce said. "The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring."
"Jesus," Annie said. "None of you got laid in high school, did you?
Andy Weir
#98. People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.
Harry Reid
#99. It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
Julian Baggini
#100. We do not desire the power of wizard-lords, only strength to defend ourselves, strength in a just cause. And behold! in our need chance brings to light the Ring of Power. It is a gift, I say; a gift to the foes of Mordor. It
J.R.R. Tolkien
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