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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

  Roland Barthes

  Technique, Cameras, Sound

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• East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.

  Edith Pattou

  Moon, Journey, Sight

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• They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

  Charles Williams

  Rooms, Telephones, Results

  Charles Williams (2016). “War in Heaven”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The bell that measures time is ringing

  Margaret Atwood

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heart, Names, Pieces

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Strong, Kings

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• - he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

  Ken Kesey

  Hands, Numbers, Alarms

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

  Rick Riordan

  Sound, Annabeth, Noise

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• 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

  Orange, Anxiety, Sides

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• At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

  Sylvester Stallone

  The End Of The Day, Finals, Stories

  "Sylvester Stallone, Klitschko Brothers to Produce 'Rocky' Musical" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

  Adam Skirving

  Time, Dark, Long

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• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  Zadie Smith

  Beautiful, Clever, Self

  "White knuckle ride". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Holiday, Years

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.345

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• I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

  Michael Moore

  Air, Feet, Guy

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• Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

  Steven Spielberg

  Technology, Stories, Noise

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• 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

  Space, Spiders, Logic

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Through the Zombie Glass”, p.422, Harlequin

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• Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started to say, “Who—?” 463/508 Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. “Bad Cyclops Lady!” he bell owed. “General Tyson says GO AWAY!” He hit her again, and Ma Gasket broke into dust.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Circles, Broken

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• Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it—a heart ringing? But when you touch me, that is what it is like, as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Heart, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

  Derek Walcott

  Fire, White, Owl

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• Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Apples, Water, Secret

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.4, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Swings, Blood, Voice

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• Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

  Michael Moore

  Jesus, New York, Thinking

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