Best Gongs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People Thinking Writing Bigs Hate Girl Gossip Gongs Gossip Girl

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“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.”

People Ifs Made Action Loses Behinds Mouths Sight Tired Deeds Hearing Hopefully Boast Gongs

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“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.”

Light Moving Dark Cities Saws Figures Red Rain Gold Wheels Tense Howl Sirens Gongs Dark City

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“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.”

Said Ideas Shows Wanted Simple Talent All Time Reverse Venues Scams Gongs Talent Show

Author:Chuck Barris

“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.”

People Want Sound Compassion Liberated Gongs

Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Book Young Night Process Sleep Doctors Gongs

Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart

“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.”

Soul Shows Seems Political Strange Creating Campaigns Debate Impulse Presidential Wrestling Mud American Politics Gongs Derby Demolition Presidential Debate Demolition Derby

Author:Hugh Sidey

“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.”

Want Art Vision Growing Up Growing Dog Horror Bombs Shelter Tag Art Music Gongs Bomb Shelters

Author:Anne Waldman

“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.”

Thinking Doe Feelings Passion Knowing Seeing Flow Empty Affection Delight Doctrine Artificial Rooted Hollow Noisy Savoring Gongs Cymbals

Author:John Piper

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

Religion Train Critics Crossings Railroads Gongs

Author:Christopher Morley

“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.”

People Thinking May Situation Cases Dangerous Messages Being True Impulse Generous Bad Things Prey Being A Woman Gongs Dangerous Situations

Author:Cheryl Strayed

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

Mean Enough Notes Dinner Often Is Gongs

Book:Vaughan Williams on Music

Source: Vaughan Williams on Music

“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.”

Wells My Own Enemy Worst Animated Pitcher Adrenaline Worst Enemy Gongs My Own Worst Enemy

Author:Randy Johnson

“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.”

Knows Years Kind Two Ideas Film Felt Race Car Waste Direct My Favorite Shooting Two Years Unlikely Let It Go Love Death Gongs Death Race

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

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

Persons Shows Age Common Bloody Show Business Gongs

Author:Janet Street-Porter

“I helped set The Gong Show. I've done so many game shows. I've helped create game shows.”

Done Shows Games Gongs Game Shows

Author:Jamie Farr

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

Has Beens Shows Song Wine Replaced Juice Pads Heating Prunes Gongs

Author:Bob Hope

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

Thinking Shows Brother Dinner Jimmy Carter Gongs

Author:Red Buttons

“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.”

Ifs Use Eye Fun Focus Shadow Red Blue Clubs Having Fun Mascara Gongs Eyeliner Stiles

Author:Julia Stiles

“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.”

States Might Kids Three House Walking Sticks Thumbs Gongs

Author:Rickie Lee Jones

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

Ifs Knows Broken Silent Gongs No Anger

Author:Gautama Buddha

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

Ifs Doe Broken Vibrate Gongs

Author:Gautama Buddha

“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.”

People Thinking Giving Long Strong Projects Following Eight Credit Very Strong Expecting Cult Hateful Monologues Quentin Tarantino Gongs

Author:Bun B

“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.”

Important Life Is Dies Gongs

Author:Elaine Cassidy

“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.”

Has Beens Purpose Reading Space Europe Built Chains Borders Giants Chapters Bookstores Malls Gongs

Author:William Gibson

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

Men Achieve Ambitious Gongs

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“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.”

Used Boys Disease Commitment Expensive Bangs Notable Carrier Phobia Gongs

Book:Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Source: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

“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!”

Black Laughing Beats Towns Rounds Dare Crush Pounds Cracks Crash Hammers Clash Whips Snaps Lad Smack Goblin Gongs Shirk Knockers

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“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.”

Source: Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963

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

Flower Silly Fairy Karate Ninja Gongs

Book:The Gone-Away World

Source: The Gone-Away World

“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)”

Said Facts Crime Masters Daughter Criminals Innocent Branded Gongs

Author:Confucius

“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.”

Ifs Men Giving Body Moving Speak Poor Nice Mystery Mountain Gains Notes Tongue Surrender Flames Prophecy Angle Fathom Move Mountains Posse Gongs Cymbals

Author:Benjamin Carson

“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.”

Knows Want May Actors Father Son One Day Direct Hollywood Males Fats Chinese My Son Asian Hollywood Movies Gongs

Author:Nicolas Cage

“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.”

Moments Forgotten Dinner Dues Remembered Gongs Haggard Cyanide

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“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.”

May Mean Doe Art War Enough Eye Fields Particular Battle Ears Institutions Focused Host Flags Art Of War Banner Spoken Word Gongs

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

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

Life Sound Learning Trust Ethics Literacy Hollow Father Son Gongs Without Trust Learning To Trust Lost Trust

Author:John Harold

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

Trying Film Hardest Routes Gongs

Author:Hailee Steinfeld

“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.”

Ifs Sea Importance Army Sticks Airplane Air Power Wwi Gongs

Author:John W. Weeks

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

Kind Shows Propaganda Foxes Neutrality Gongs

Author:Russ Baker

“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.”

Men Life Trying Wells Littles Long Strong Born Listening Weak Silent Rings Winner Why Not Loser Noisy Hush Little Man Winner And Loser Gongs

Book:Honey and Salt

Source: Honey and Salt

“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.”

People Thinking Order Strikes Shakes Gongs

Author:Balthus

“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.”

World Years Shows Guy Known Five Five Years Uncles Time Of My Life Gongs

Author:Chuck Barris

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

Night Song Emperor Cathedrals Resonance Walkers Gongs

Author:William Butler Yeats

“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.”

Heart Dream Faces Lost Hours Heard Minutes Figures My Heart Quiet Beats Notes Soldier Legs Chess Passing Passings Clock Piano Tall Rolling Wire Footsteps Tin Ivory Heart Beat Gongs

Author:Anais Nin

“Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.”

Should Certain Sex Women Gongs

Author:Noel Coward

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

Knows Turns Welcome Gongs

Author:Jim Rohn

“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.”

Ifs Enough Hands Kids Used Wish Moon Beats If I Could Climbs Silver My Wish Gongs

Book:Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

Source: Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

“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.”

Knows Ready Rings Champion Gongs

Author:Jack Dempsey

“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.”

Ifs Love Age Earth Speak Language Angel If I Could Noisy Gongs Cymbals

Author:Paul the Apostle

“Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.”

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