Sayings About The Gong

#1. Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Nigel Lythgoe

#2. Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing

Raja Rao

#3. We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

Hugh Sidey

#4. I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

Balthus

#5. Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#6. 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

#7. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

Criss Jami

#8. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Chuck Barris

#9. Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

Bob Hope

#10. At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

Jamie Farr

#12. The Gong lived in the Pit. It made a loud, brassy "nnnnnnngggggggggg" that set everyone's teeth on edge. Any deal over 50K per annum, the salesman got to take a whack at it, so that the whole company would know he'd landed a big fish.

Lori Berhon

#13. To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#14. 'Dirty Jobs' is maybe the simplest show in the history of TV, with the possible exception of 'The Gong Show'. I go around the country; we've shot in every state. And we spend a day with people who do jobs that are dirty or dangerous or ridiculous or difficult.

Mike Rowe

#15. Albanian dogs go "ham ham." In Catalan, dogs go "bup bup." The Chinese dogs say "wang wang," the Greek dogs go "gav gav," the Slovenians "hov hov," and the Ukrainians "haf haf." In Iceland, it's "voff," in Indonesia, it's "gong gong," and in Italian, it's "bau bau.

John Lloyd

#16. The world halted. There sounded a great gong made of sky. A gasp. Silence.

Louise Erdrich

#17. Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda.

Russ Baker

#18. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

Anne Waldman

#19. I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

Janet Street-Porter

#20. When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

John Dos Passos

#21. To kill deliberately is very wrong," said Chen Gong. "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me," was Cao Cao's reply. Chen Gong could say nothing.

Luo Guanzhong

#22. The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Gong Li

#23. Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#24. It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour, the city's a gong that was struck at noon and is not yet quite still.

Sam Thompson

#25. God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

Henry Ward Beecher

#26. Success has a million musical nuances. Failure is only the monotonous banging of a brass gong.

Robert Goolrick

#27. For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one's character, personality, upbringing and so on.

Gong Li

#28. Somewhere a dog barked. With the help of fear and echoes and winter silences, that dog had a voice like a big bronze gong.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold

#30. I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

Hailee Steinfeld

#31. I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#32. Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

#33. The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

William Butler Yeats

#34. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Anonymous

#35. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Winston S. Churchill

#36. My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

Raif Badawi

#37. Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always some jealousy mixed up in this feeling of love. I think that is the big difference. Overseas, there is none of that.

Gong Li

#38. Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

Wong Kiew Kit

#39. Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#40. I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.

Candice Olson

#41. For Marquez, the transition from standing around to dancing was instantaneous and total. It wasn't about looking cool, it was about losing all contact with the normal world, gong away to a place where her body and mind and the music were all the same thing.

Katherine Applegate

#42. I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#43. A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Christopher Morley

#44. The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

Gong Li

#45. You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

Scott Tolzien

#46. My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

Gong Li

#47. I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.

Morgan Matson

#48. Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

Gong Li

#49. The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

Tobin T. Buhk

#50. I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

Ty Segall

#51. If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.

Julia Stiles

#52. So the platonic Year
Whirls out new right and wrong,
Whirls in the old instead;
All men are dancers and their tread
Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong.

W.B.Yeats

#53. Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

William Carlos Williams

#54. Pershing won [WWI] without even looking into an airplane, let alone gong up in one. If they had been of such importance he'd have tried at least a ride ... We'll stick to the army on the ground and the battleships at sea.

John W. Weeks

#55. People keep pushing me to be the center of attention ... I would prefer to be on the sidelines, because that's where you see more.

Gong Li

#56. Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Nick Harkaway

#57. The Master said of Gong Yechang, "He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime." The Master gave him his daughter in marriage.
(Analects 5.1)

Confucius

#58. There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I'd like to have a word with him. Three words actually: WHAT THE FUCK?!

Jandy Nelson