Bells Quotes - Page 17

• Who will bell the cat?

  William Langland

  Cat

  William Langland (1874). “The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman”, p.101

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• Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Looks

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• 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

  Service Culture, Alarms, Wake Up

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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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• Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

  Danger Mouse

  Fun, Broken

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

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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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• This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .

  Tamar Jacoby

  Gun, Race, Political

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• Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.

  Eric Maisel

  Mean, Ideas, Tolls

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• Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.

  Robert Breault

  Clever, Past, Ideas

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• Softly drops the crimson sun: Softly down from overhead, Drop the bell-notes, one by one, Melting in the melting red.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Melting, Red, Sun

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• When we arrive at eternity's shore
  Where death is just a memory and tears are no more
  We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring
  Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful'

  Phil Wickham

  Beautiful, Memories, Tears

  Song: You're Beautiful, Album: Cannons, 2007

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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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• 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

  Horse, Jingles, Wit

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.97

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• Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Teaching, Air, Heartbreaking

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• The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful.

  Ben Weinman

  Powerful, Play, Monsters

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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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• I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Age

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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