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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers. -- Ogden Nash
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings. -- Billy Graham
A thing resounds when it rings true, Ringing all the bells inside of you, Like a golden sky on a summer eve Your heart is tugging at your sleeve, And you cannot say why... There must be more -- Andrew Peterson
Ringing the cash register is not the name of the game. It's only the scorekeeper, and it's not what motivates me. I'm motivated in my business by the compliments I receive about our people, our service, and the quality of our food. -- S. Truett Cathy
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. -- Jonathan Lethem
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears. -- will.i.am
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. -- Ezra Pound
My idea of hell is a girlfriend ringing up and saying, 'Let's go shopping and have cocktails.' I'd rather play cards. -- Alison Moyet
I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years. -- Sylvester Stallone
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter. -- P. T. Barnum
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' -- Tim Vine
I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones. -- Malcolm Gladwell
And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me. -- Ray Lewis
I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all. -- James Nachtwey
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. -- Paul Auster
I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another. -- Andrew Motion
If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws. -- Mark Shields
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo. -- Katie Leclerc
My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. -- Terry Pratchett
The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it. -- Rick Barry
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. -- John Jakes
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that! -- Ray Charles
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. -- Bill Murray
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. -- Andrew Eldritch
In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide. -- Paula Deen
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have. -- Gary Barlow
I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. -- Pippa Middleton
I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing. -- Mel Gibson
My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house. -- Tom Hanks
Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music... -- Anne Rice
The bell that measures time is ringing -- Margaret Atwood
Loud ringing noises, I've discovered, upset Mr.Peepers. -- Meg Cabot
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories -- Horace Walpole
"Doctor, I have a ringing in my ears." "Don't answer!" -- Henny Youngman
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell. -- Chuck Berry
I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet. -- Tim Winton
If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether. -- Mason Cooley
I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing. -- Saina Nehwal
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this? -- Dorothy Parker
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose. -- Stevie Wonder
My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers. -- Steven Cojocaru
The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook -- Sean Astin
The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. -- Sean Astin
People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone. -- Jeffery Deaver
I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound. -- Steve Huffman
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired. -- David Foster Wallace
There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing -- The Notorious B.I.G.
When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives. -- Joel Osteen
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. -- Charles Williams
Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent. -- Rico Love
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming. -- Beck
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world. -- John Gummer
Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head. -- Bob Seger
His hatred for her was now as solid as the boards he lay on, as the stones ringing the firepit. -- Stephen M. Irwin
You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell. -- Tina Turner
Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing. -- John Steinbeck
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing. -- Sam J. Jones
He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell. -- Chuck Berry
I'd smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~ Jaz -- Jennifer Rardin
God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love. -- Joshua L. Liebman
Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it? -- Kiefer Sutherland
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear. -- Richard Hovey
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages. -- William Morley Punshon
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went. -- Maureen Lipman
Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. -- William Shakespeare
You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics. -- Joe Scarborough
My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home. -- Rita Rudner
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! -- Agnes Repplier
What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity! -- Mikhail Lermontov
The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby. -- Matt LeBlanc
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer. -- Steve Earle
I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. -- Annie Dillard
Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said! -- Keith Green
The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket." -- Christopher McDougall
There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use. -- Devra Davis
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty. -- J. D. Salinger
This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays. -- Graham Greene
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter. -- Eric Maisel
We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention. -- Dolores Huerta
Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future. -- Jeanette Lee
There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing. -- Billy Porter
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business. -- Seneca the Younger
The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something. -- Ray Harryhausen
Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. -- Samuel Smiles
I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead? -- Emilie Autumn
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement. -- P. T. Barnum
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line. -- Florence King
As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me. -- Ronald Frame

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