Bells Quotes - Page 14

• You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn’t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.’ (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don’t know how. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Book, Sky

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• "That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!"

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Doors, Done, Fronts

  "The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, July 29, 1954.

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• 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

  Notebook, Teacher, Moving

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• I feel like with Indy cars, you can just show up - if you are equipped to build and make a nice car, then you could be competitive. But in NASCAR I don't see that even being possible for someone to just show up with a car. There's too much evolution of the tricks and bells and whistles and all the things it takes to be fast in stock-car racing that you wouldn't know.

  Danica Patrick

  Nice, Stock Car Racing, Too Much

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Beautiful, Stress, London

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Blessed, Beer, Beef

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.58

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• The wild Bee reels from bough to bough
  With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,
  Now in a lily cup, and now
  Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,
  In his wandering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Swings, Lilies, Coats

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.849, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Sunday, Grace

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• I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.

  Ralph Ellison

  Laughter, Gay, Air

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.134, Vintage

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• 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

  Burritos, Taco Bell, Green

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• 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

  Lonely, War, Book

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• 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

  Cymbals, Madness, Mood

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.

  Bel Kaufman

  Reading, School, Broken

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.262, Open Road Media

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• Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken.

  Don McLean

  Reality, Church Bells, Broken

  Song: Miss American Pie, Album: American Pie

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• Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Shoes, Alleys

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• 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

  Powerful, Code Quality, Language

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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• May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Sweet, Time, Silver Bells

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

  Bob Dylan

  Blind, Deaf, Explanation

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• Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

  Pete Townshend

  Lonely, Church Bells, Judging

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• She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

  Bob Dylan

  Smell, Rejection, Hot

  Song: I Shall Be Free, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

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• 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

  Epidemics, Government, Years

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• Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Daughter, Kings, Winter

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• For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.

  Eli Roth

  Real, Gun, Cynical

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• Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

  Arthur Laurents

  Play, Closing, Written

  Arthur Laurents (2005). “Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents”, Backstage Books

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• In the governor's race, Chris Bell has as good a shot as anybody in a four-way race. If Bell holds on to his base and connects with some people who are tired of the way things are going, he could win.

  Ed Martin

  Tired, Winning, Race

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