Bells Quotes
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Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.
William Shakespeare -
Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.
Don McLean
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Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.
Sandra Cisneros -
There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.
Sharleen Spiteri Texas -
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
Virginia Postrel -
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.
Bill Vaughan -
The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
Andrew Motion
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
William Morris -
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
Lord Dunsany -
There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff.
George Foreman -
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
Rita Mae Brown -
And it's okay if you have to go away Oh just remember the telephone works both ways And if I never ever hear them ring If nothing else I'll think the bells inside Have finally found you someone else and that's okay Cause I'll remember everything you sang ((You and I both))
Jason Mraz
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Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun.
Bobby Helms -
... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
William James -
I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.
Sarah Paulson -
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry
William Shakespeare -
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
Ernest Hemingway -
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For the taking of revenge, a man locks himself up alone and thinks. His stomach must be empty for his head to be full. Vengeance comes a little from the heart and a lot from the mind; one must take oneself apart from the noise of men and of things, even from what resembles them; only the voices of bells and of thunder are allowed. Let the room in which you meditate be dark, narrow and warm.
Xavier Forneret -
The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.
William Cowper -
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez