For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. — Plautus
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. — Colin Meloy
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. — George Herbert
Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! — Thomas Hood
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. — Danish Proverbs
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
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. — Ezra Pound
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime! — Charles Lamb
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee — John Donne
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
When one bell is rung, by the sound of that one bell other bells will also vibrate. So it is with the dancing of the soul...it produces its reaction, and that again, will make other souls dance. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon. — American Proverbs
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away! — Oscar Hammerstein II
Short Bell Quotes
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. — Ernest Hemingway
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don’t have alarm bells when it comes to creativity. — Bernard Arnault
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before. — Ernest Hemingway
Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy. — Joe Louis
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. — Wilfred Owen
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. — Sylvia Plath
A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.
Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
Alexander Graham Bell's wife, who said to Alex on their wedding night, Your three minutes are up. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different. — Chubby Checker
Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone? — Walter Isaacson
On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone? — Walter Isaacson
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text. — P. J. O'Rourke
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone! — Andy Kindler
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell. — Rita Mae Brown
In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword. — Fannie Flagg
Tinkerbell Quotes
Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact. — Misha Collins
I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously. — Paris Hilton
I love Tinkerbell because she's feisty and about it. She's got swag! She's going to do what she wants to do. I even have a Tinkerbell tattoo, and she is wearing Adidas flip-flops! — Kidada Jones
You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting. — Julia Roberts
You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope. — Alexandra Bracken
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. — James M. Barrie
Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it. — Walt Disney
Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance. — Tink
I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called. — Chris Carmack
Jingle Bell Quotes
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh, hey, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh... — James Pierpont
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. — Richard Dawkins
Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells. — Jay Leno
Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes: At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle. The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle. And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle, And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single. — Helen Fielding
My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix. — Joe
I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' — Dolly Parton
I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air... and your own spirit goes with it. — Hilda Lewis
Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock. — Christopher Hitchens
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
Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home. — Stephen King
Bell Jar Quotes
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. — Sylvia Plath
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. — Sylvia Plath
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath
I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. — Sylvia Plath
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. — Sylvia Plath
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? — Sylvia Plath
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
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath
I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. — Sylvia Plath
Whom The Bell Tolls Quotes
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. — John Donne
For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway. — Ernest Hemingway
To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material. — Ernest Hemingway
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have. — Ernest Hemingway
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart — Madonna Ciccone
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. — Ernest Hemingway
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go? — Ingrid Bergman
I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said. — Ernest Hemingway
Liberty Bell Quotes
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. — Allen Johnson
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
Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell. — Bo Belinsky
Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something." — George W. Bush
What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself. — Justina Chen
The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world." — Nelson Mandela
Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope
and prayers. — Walter Cronkite
The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives. — Angela Merkel
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free. — Aaron Tippin
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall. — Frederick Douglass
Taco Bell Quotes
When I started Taco Bell, I wasn’t thinking about creating an empire; I just wanted to make a living doing something I enjoyed. — Glen Bell
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. — Ilona Andrews
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
The milk of kindness flows through my body, I shall follow Jesus to the Taco Bell and give thanks. — Aretha Franklin
I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day! — Dante Hall
Popeyes and Taco Bell. I try to be healthy, but they're just so good. — Kate Spade
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song. — Dhani Harrison
Taco Bell is going to start selling nachos and chicken nuggets wrapped in a tortilla. In other words, thank God we're going to keep Obamacare. — Conan O'Brien
This is interesting. Researchers have found that people who drive drunk are more dangerous on the road than drivers who are high on marijuana. Don't get too excited. It's mostly because the drivers using marijuana are just sitting in the Taco Bell drive-through. — Jimmy Fallon
The country of Mexico has just gotten its first Taco Bell. You're Welcome. Finally, Mexicans will have access to... Mexican food. Bon appetit. I can't imagine how confused they will be when they get a taco. — Jon Stewart
I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes. — Jodi Picoult
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. — Charles Spurgeon
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. — Walt Whitman
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow! — Sergei Rachmaninoff
I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight. — Rocky Marciano
A man is at the bar, drunk. I pick him up off the floor, and offer to take him home. On the way to my car, he falls down three times. When I get to his house, I help him out of the car, and on the way to the front door, he falls down four more times. I ring the bell and say, Here's your husband! The man's wife says, Where's his wheelchair? — Henny Youngman
When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray. — Grigori Rasputin
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow. — Irving Berlin
God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells. — Vincent de Paul
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. — Erich Segal
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time. — Harold H. Greene
Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo. — Georges Bidault
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. — Phyllis Diller
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing. — Tom Harkin
Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool. — Quincy Jones
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. — D. A. Carson
And yet rather than accommodate and moderate student curiosity, for what was after all the best belles lettres and modern science, the theologians responded with interdiction and persecution, as if they had something to fear. In other words, it was less the circle than the seminary itself that was fomenting radicalism, albeit unwittingly. — Stephen Kotkin
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
With drooping bells of clearest blue
Thou didst attract my childish view,
Almost resembling
The azure butterflies that flew
Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
So lightly trembling. — Reginald Heber
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
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring — Benito Mussolini
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. — John Taylor Gatto
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. — Graham Greene
At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe. — Chris Van Allsburg
In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks Im nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. Its not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment. — Andrew Eldritch
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