"One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them." »J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2
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"One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." »Charles Dickens
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"There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering." »Woody Allen
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"There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering." »Trevor Rook
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"ring Announcer What's your name kid Peter The Human Spider. ring Announcer That's it The Human Spider That's the best you've got Peter Yeah. ring Announcer Well that sucks." »Spider-Man
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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin
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"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot." »Mitchell Burgess
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"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone." »Barbara Ehrenreich
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"I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its materials largely from the annual produce of the fields." »Henry Ford, 1934
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"If the Phone Doesn't ring, It's Me" »Jimmy Buffett
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"These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas." »Brenda Ueland
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"A good friend will fit you like ring to finger." »Venezuelan Proverb
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword." »Zig Ziglar
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"It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the way, pick up the telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it was just this squawking and cheeping. 'What What' I would yell back, but he never did speak English." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day." »Sharon Gold
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"I asked ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces." »Harold Ross
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"Never knock on Death's door ring the bell and run away Death really hates that" »Matt Frewer
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"Its a shame a hollow promise doesn't ring hollow" »Aaron J. Munzer
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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols." »Thomas Mann
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"Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch A jack-o'-lantern with a knife in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"When I heard that trees grow a new 'ring' for each year they live, I thought, we humans are kind of like that we grow a new layer of skin each year, and after many years we are thick and unwieldy from all of our skin layers." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live." »Vince Lombardi
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"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork." »Neil Gershenfeld
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