A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. — Danish Proverbs
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. — Rumi
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. — Plautus
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb
When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. — John McPhee
The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm. — Thomas Beecham
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee — John Donne
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. — Siobhan Fahey
Short Gong Quotes
I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it. — Hailee Steinfeld
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. — John Harold
To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation. — Philip Guston
Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on. — Jim Rohn
Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men. — Sheryl Sandberg
Wine, women and song have been replaced by prune juice, a heating pad and the Gong Show. — Bob Hope
Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. — Noel Coward
Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate. — Nick Harkaway
If you can keep as silent as a broken gong, then you have attained, when you know no anger. — Buddha
Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive — Ratan Tata
I'm satisfied and proud of the things I did - even the bumps and the bruises that I've had on the way. You fall down, you get up, you brush yourself off and you keep going. And that's what we're doing. — Gucci Mane
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. — Harriet Tubman
The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke
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. — Paul the Apostle
The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is no walk in the park or mere drum-beating and gong-clanging. — Xi Jinping
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
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
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
If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you. — Buddha
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. — Randy Johnson
Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
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
I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter. — Ai Qing
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point. — Sun Tzu
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. — P. G. Wodehouse
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
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley
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
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
Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. — Anais Nin
I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. — Rickie Lee Jones
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
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there. — William Gibson
The only thing that is guaranteed in life is that we're all gong to die at some point, so it's important to make the most of now. — Elaine Cassidy
They're not gong to give Hateful Eight its credit now, they'll give it its credit later. Hateful Eight was too long. I think we've indulged Quentin [Tarantino] so much with his monologues. Quentin has this very strong cult following around him and his projects, and people are always expecting so much from him. — Bun B
I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows. — Jamie Farr
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. — Paul W. S. Anderson
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. — Cheryl Strayed
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. — John Piper
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
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
Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
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. — Frederick Lenz
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. — Chuck Barris
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
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
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
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. — Henry Ward Beecher
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