Gongs Quotes

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

  Philip Guston

  Excellence, Looks, Painting

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• Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

  Noel Coward

  Sex, Women, Should

  Private Lives act 3 (1930)

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• 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

  Champion, Ready, Rings

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• 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 Churchill

  Simple, Thinking, Self

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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

  John Harold

  Life, Trust, Learning

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Broken, Silent, Knows

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• If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Broken, Doe, Ifs

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• Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Crush, Laughing, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Simple, Two, Qigong

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• 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

  Uncles, Years, Guy

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• 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

  Thinking, Order, People

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

  Nick Harkaway

  Flower, Silly, Ninja

  Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-away World”, Random House

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• Welcome all experiences. You never know which one is gong to turn everything on.

  Jim Rohn

  Welcome, Turns, Knows

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• 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

  Love, Angel, Age

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• 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

  Kids, Moon, Hands

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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

  Bob Hope

  Song, Wine, Juice

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• Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Ambitious, Achieve

  "Zuckerberg Says Amazon and Apple Are Allies, While Google’s Building “Their Own Little Version of Facebook”". Interview with Charlie Rose, allthingsd.com. November 7, 2011.

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• If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.

  Benjamin Carson

  Nice, Moving, Men

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• 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

  Art, War, Mean

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Strong, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Consistency, Dinner, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Tired, Sight, People

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• 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.

  Nicolas Cage

  Father, Son, Chinese

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

  Ralph Vaughan Williams

  Mean, Often Is, Dinner

  Ralph Vaughan Williams (2008). “Vaughan Williams on Music”, p.394, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Christopher Morley

  Religion, Railroads, Critics

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