Bells Quotes - Page 5

• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

  Buddy Guy

  Guitar, Perfect, Car

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• I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Assembly, Minutes, Rings

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• Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

  Julian Bond

  Apology, Decision, Apologizing

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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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• I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

  Antonia Fraser

  Hate, Book, Hair

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• Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

  James Laughlin

  Gertrude, Now And Then, Clicks

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• You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

  Gerry Cooney

  Real, Men, Hiking

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

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• Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Listening, Transience

  Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press

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• There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

  Mervyn Peake

  Laughter, Ignorance, Ice

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• This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know; Its burdens growin' lighter- An' it's Love that makes 'em so! An' I'm thankful that I'm livin' Where Love's blessedness I see, 'Neath a Heaven that's forgivin' Where the bells ring 'Home' to me!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Dream, Home, Heaven

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• And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.

  Conor Oberst

  Doors, Long, Shadow

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• The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Talking, Justice

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• Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half of them are soldiers, or priests in disgui- Ah.Is your priest with them?" "No!" He snapped. Ping. He jumped. He'd forgotten the bell. "I mean, I don't know". Ping. "There is no particular priest."Ping. He bit his lip and fell silent.

  Hilari Bell

  Mean, Soldier, Half

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• What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Gun, Passing

  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 1 (written 1917)

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• See the wild birds on the wing,
  Hear the bells that sweetly ring,
  When you feel like singin', sing--
  Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Wings, Bird

  Frank Lebby Stanton, “Keep A-Goin'!”

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• I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

  Syd Barrett

  Giving, Looks, You Like It

  "Song: Bike (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)". August 5, 1967.

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• 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

  Children, Winter, Air

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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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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• When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

  Tom Petty

  Money, Giving Up, Night

  Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...

  Kinky Friedman

  Hate, I Hate, Wells

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Feet, Air, Jars

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.111, Hamilton Books

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• 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. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

  Ayn Rand

  Running, Mean, Gun

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin

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• She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, People, Snow

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “No Country for Old Men”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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• In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Girl, Eye, White

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• Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.

  Carolyn Keene

  Opposites, Silence, Missing

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