Bells Quotes - Page 6

• Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Book, Sky, Two

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• Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

  Daniel Handler

  Church Bells, Chocolate, Coffins

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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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• The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains in the windows of dreary houses, and Nick was unsurprised to see the curtains making their attempts in every window of this place. There was a china garden gnome on the doorstep, wearing a desperate, crazy smile. "It's not so bad," Alan said. "You never take me nice places anymore, baby." said Nick, and was mildly gratified by Alan's ring of laughter, like a living bell that had been caught by surprise when it was struck.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Baby, Laughter, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

  Tom Waits

  Fun, Oil, Way

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• Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

  Russell Brand

  Jesus, Eye, Church Bells

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• Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.

  Rick Riordan

  Song, Mind, Different

  "Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 5, 2009.

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• The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Silence, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a necromancer's bells! Apart from that, he was quite handsome, which was another black mark as far as she was concerned.

  Garth Nix

  Black, Boots, Arrogant

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• Well met, Mistress Lirael. This ragamuffin, as your servant so aptly described him, is His Highness Prince Sameth, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting. Hence the bells. But on to more serious matters. Could you please rescue us? Prince Sameth's personal vessel is not quite what I'm used to, and he is eager to catch me a fish before my morning nap.

  Garth Nix

  Morning, Naps, Waiting

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.249, Hot Key Books

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• It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Silly, Hair, Voice

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.222, Modern Library

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• I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

  Rob Sheffield

  Summer, Home, Kids

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• But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

  Truman Capote

  Sunday, Clock

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.72, Vintage

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• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

  John Muir

  Life, Song, Cutting

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing. I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell. As i love you,"He told me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Voice, Focus

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• When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Littles, Would Be

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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• Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.

  Carolyn Keene

  Beautiful, Missing, Luther

  Carolyn Keene (1960). “Nancy Drew 10: Password to Larkspur Lane”, p.102, Penguin

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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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• To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

  George Herbert

  Fool

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.310

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• Not far from here where we gather today is a symbol of freedom familiar to all Americans -- the Liberty Bell. When the Declaration of Independence was first read in public, the Liberty Bell was sounded in celebration, and a witness said: "It rang as if it meant something."

  George W. Bush

  Freedom, Independence, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address on War on Terror and Upcoming Iraqi Elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 12, 2005.

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• I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Father, Independence

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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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