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• 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

  Mean, Clear, Exquisite

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

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• But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

  Johan Huizinga

  Confused, History, Rose

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• I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

  Annie Dillard

  Inspiring, Moments, That Moment

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

  Thomas Hood

  Joy, Able, Tunes

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• Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.

  Marjorie Hillis

  Self Esteem, Doors, Waiting

  Marjorie Hillis (2012). “Live Alone And Like It”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

  William Faulkner

  Way, Strive, Strife

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• True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

  Erich Segal

  Love, Inspiring, Valentines Day

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• After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

  Robin Sloan

  Lonely, Book, Dark

  "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". Book by Robin Sloan, 2012.

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• If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Tolls, Hell, Intolerance

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• All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...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

  Book, Men, Islands

  1624 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation no.17.

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• You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Relationship, Spring, Water

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.108, eKitap Projesi

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• No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

  Alice Cooper

  Running, Teacher, Book

  Song "School's Out / Another Brick In the Wall" by "Hollywood Vampires", 2015.

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• February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spring, Fall, Sadness

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• Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

  Jane Fonda

  Jars, Conformity, Bell Jar

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

  Leif Enger

  People, Miracle, Saws

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• 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

  Philadelphia, Liberty, Berlin

  Angela Merkel's Speech before the US Congress, www.spiegel.de. November 4, 2009.

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• Bell's theorem...proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.

  Gary Zukav

  Communication, Science, Connections

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

  Denise Levertov

  Memories, Clothes, Offering

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Mean, Boys

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Light, People

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Eye, Heart

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.318

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• I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Next, Saxophone

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• The play is done; the curtain drops,
  Slow falling to the prompter's bell
  A moment yet the actor stops
  And looks around to say farewell.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fall, Farewell, Play

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.7516, Delphi Classics

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• Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

  Antony Hewish

  Team, Sky, Paper

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