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  • If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger.

    Broken   Silent   Gongs  
  • To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

    Mean   Often Is   Dinner  
    Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008). “Vaughan Williams on Music”, p.394, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press
  • Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.

  • 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.

    Moving   Rain   Dark  
    William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.174, New Directions Publishing
  • I think being a woman alone enhanced the impulse in others to be generous. What we're told is that to be a woman alone is to be in a dangerous situation. The message is that people are gong to prey on you and do bad things to you. That may be true in some cases, but what I experienced was the other case.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

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

    Soul   Mind   Bells  
    "Life Thoughts".
  • I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.

    Trying   Film   Gongs  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner!

  • The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren't any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn't find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, "Let's reverse it. Let's do lousy acts." Now, is that a scam? I'm telling you.

    Simple   Ideas   Scams  
  • 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)

  • We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.

    Father   Son   Chinese  
  • Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

    Flower   Silly   Ninja  
    Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House
  • He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

    1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'Clustering Around Young Bingo'.
  • When I was younger and inexperienced, I was a very animated pitcher. I pitched with a lot of adrenaline. I was my own worst enemy when things weren't gong well.

  • 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.

    Dog   Art   Growing Up  
    Source: logosjournal.com
  • To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

  • 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.

    Simple   Two   Qigong  
  • Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show.

    Song   Wine   Juice  
  • He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.

    Commitment   Boys   Bangs  
    Diablo Cody (2005). “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper”, p.88, Penguin
  • The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

    Song   Night   Resonance  
    "Byzantium" l. 1 (1933)
  • 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.

    Tired   Sight   People  
    Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami
  • 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.

    Champion   Gongs   Ready  
  • I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.

    Games   Done   Gongs  
  • I love Death Race, it's one of my favorite films. I thought, "You know what? All that two years worth of work is now gong to be wasted because I'm highly unlikely to direct another car movie straight away," and I felt at that point there was no one who was kind of better at shooting cars, so I thought rather than let it go to waste I would explore the idea of doing commercials, and that's what I did.

    Race   Years   Ideas  
    Source: collider.com
  • Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

    Book   Sleep   Night  
  • I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

    Dream   Heart   Ivory  
  • 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.

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

    Age   Common   Gongs  
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