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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

Smiling, Happy, Clear

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

Loudly, Aim, Like

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 Remember, Bells, Prepared

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Ezra Pound

Symbolic, Pointless, Other

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. Jonathan Lethem

Silent, Bear, Skull

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change, Ever, World

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

Love, Country, Catching

A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved. Peter Marshall

Him, Through, Saved

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

Through, Bells, Before

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

Voice, Other, Asking

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

Early Bird, Some, Like

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

Always, Sacrifices, Through

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

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me. Muhammad Yunus

Living, Stopped, Began

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook. Sean Astin

Hook, Phone, Work

I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift. Homer Hickam

Hammer, Steel, Shop

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

Voice, Please, Got

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

Which, Broken, Consolation

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills. Robert C. Merton

College, Activity, Bells

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look. Vesta Williams

I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound. Steve Huffman

Actual, Built, Like

If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether. Mason Cooley

Play, Altogether, Phone

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her. Jo Brand

Dad, Church, Every Sunday

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

Been, Artist, Believe

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me. Rachel Kushner

Studio, Other, Kind

Every new revelation about the Obama Administration comes with the familiar musical notes of the Rod Serling TV classic ringing in my head: 'Do-dee-do-do, do-dee-do-do.' Mike Gallagher

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