Bells famous quotes
04-29-2025
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I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!.
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
-- Alfred the Great -
I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
-- Amory Lovins -
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
-- Andrew Motion -
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
-- Annie Dillard -
Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.
-- Arthur Laurents -
Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. "This class isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know." "Vee? As in virgin?" "Not so loud." She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
-- Beck -
I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.
-- Ben Affleck -
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.
-- Billy Graham -
Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.
-- Bret Harte -
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
-- Burl Ives -
Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.
-- C.C. Hunter -
Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.
-- Carolyn Keene -
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.
-- Charles Williams -
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.
-- Charlie Brooker -
What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
-- Chester Carlson -
I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there, I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.
-- Chris Massoglia -
Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe.
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
Where is the coffee emoji where is the coffee emoji aaaah yes in the bell section of course
-- Chrissy Teigen -
Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.
-- Christopher Moore -
He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.
-- Chuck Berry -
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
-- Colin Meloy -
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
-- Danger Mouse -
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
-- Daniel Handler -
Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.
-- David Lynch -
Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.
-- Deion Sanders -
I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
-- Earl Warren -
Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.
-- Edmond Rostand -
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.
-- Edwin M. Stanton -
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.
-- Elaine Stritch -
I don't like working in a studio, at all. I just prefer to be on location, rather than hearing the bells of the studio going off. It's like being in Las Vegas, where no one knows the time and there are no windows.
-- Eric Bana -
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
-- Fergie -
You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item.
-- Frank Murkowski -
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable.
-- Fritjof Capra -
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 -
He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.
-- Garth Nix -
When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. You'd better find ways to be better.
-- Gary L. Tooker -
Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.
-- Gena Showalter -
What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
-- George Crabbe -
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
-- Graham Greene -
In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.
-- H. P. Lovecraft -
If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.
-- Henry Seidel Canby -
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
-- Horace Walpole -
Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
-- Irwin Redlener -
In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.
-- Izumi Shikibu -
That's done it! Now I've rung the front-door bell!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
-- James Laughlin -
My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
-- Jason Momoa -
Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully
-- Jason Schwartzman -
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers
-- Jean Toomer -
Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.
-- Jean-Dominique Bauby -
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
-- Jeffrey Archer -
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
-- Jesse Jackson -
If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.
-- Jim Lehrer -
Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
-- Joe Louis -
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
-- John Donne -
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
-- John Donne -
It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some ***** in an El Camino was going to kick your ass.
-- John Roecker -
I remember too, a distant bell...and stars that fell...like the rainout of the blue.
-- Johnny Mercer -
Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.
-- Juice Newton -
Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.
-- Julian Bond -
Do you wanna do something fun? Wanna go to Taco Bell?
-- Karen Smith -
Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.
-- Karl Urban -
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
-- Karolyn Grimes -
Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...
-- Kinky Friedman -
Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.
-- Kobayashi Issa -
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.
-- Laurel Lea -
I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.
-- Laverne Cox -
In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
-- Madison Smartt Bell -
In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
-- Mae Whitman -
In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
What it takes to survive out here is order, I realize and say to myself, ‘Divide the day into equal periods. See this travel alarm? You get up, don your uniform, move according to the bell.’
-- Mary Robison -
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
-- Matsuo Basho -
On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
-- Matthew Arnold -
My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
-- Mel Brooks -
There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell
-- Mervyn Peake -
If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.
-- MyAnna Buring -
I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.
-- Paula Deen -
The bells which toll for mankind are—most of them, anyway—like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
-- Peter Medawar -
Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound
-- Philip Kapleau -
Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.
-- Philip Sidney -
I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.
-- Pietro Aretino -
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.
-- Preet Bharara -
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
-- Robert B. Laughlin -
The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.
-- Russell Baker -
If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
-- Sadie Frost -
And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
-- Samuel Rogers -
Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red....
-- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey -
We ring the bells and we raise the strain We hang up garlands everywhere And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic - and then we go Back to the same old lives again.
-- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey -
One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ***** sliding into second.
-- Satchel Paige -
Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.
-- Sergei Bongart
