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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

Beautiful, Music, Children, Sweet, Happy

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

School, Friends, School Friends, Canvas

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

Life, Heart, Man, Shoulder, Without, Him

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

Job, Phone, Chance, Situation, Back

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, God, Great, Me, Fishing, Fish

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

People, Religions, Quiet, Bell, Act

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

Silent, Bear, Skull

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

Good, Friend, Best, Dad, Best Friend, Go

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

Work, Me, Looking, Baby, Phone, Long

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

Home, You, Phone, Voice, Said, Up

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, Great, World, Down, Spin, Ever

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

Ride, Experience, People, Hell, Aim

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.' Edmund Morgan

Equality, Support, You, Independence

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

Time, Bird, Phone, Quiet, Early, Some

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

People, Flying, College, Down, Studying

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

Work, Me, People, True, University

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

Me, Door, Want, Phones, Bell, Call

What I have now are good problems of trying to decide and what I really want to do is good work next. My phone's ringing a lot more and I've got nine lines so when it doesn't ring, it's very frustrating. Bob Saget

Work, Good, Problems, Phone, Good Work

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

Me, Reality, Phone, True, Nobody, Down

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

Fire, Day, Dark, House, Wild, Midnight

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

Time, Believe, Phone, Artist, First Time

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

Good, Myself, Conversation, Difficult

You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell. Tina Turner

Believe, Door, You, Side, Still, Caps

If you're ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans, I will call the police. That is literally harassment. James Charles

Police, You, Garbage, Three, Will, Call

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers. Steven Cojocaru

Phone, Phones, Like, Cell Phones, Off

I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give me your attention. In exchange, I'll give you something else.' The cash register is not ringing. It's not denominated in dollars or cents or euros, but it is a form of sales in a way. It is an exchange. Daniel H. Pink

Me, Think, Saying, You, Attention, Class

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