Bells quotes
198 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them."
"Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church."
"We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells."
"Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music."
"The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers."
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"I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir."
"Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers"
"Every great team that I've been on, the offensive linemen was the bell cows of the whole team."
"But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?"
"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."
"There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell."
"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."
"When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard."
"Ring the bells for the blind and deaf."
"I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'"
"That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples."
"Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back."
"All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it."
"But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays."
""That's done it!" said Sam. "Now I've rung the front-door bell!""
"I'm interested in the left side of the Bell Curve."
"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."
"This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell."
"Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells."
"We are stone enemies when the bell rings"
