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Quotes About Ringing

His voice is unmuffled - it is like a bell, clearly ringing in the night of our confusion; but the clarity is the clarity of imponderable depth...
~ Mervyn Peake
But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.
~ Susanna Clarke
Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.
~ Haruki Murakami
I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.
~ Steve Huffman
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.
~ Jonathan Lethem
The news of life is carried via telephone. A baby's birth, a couple engaged, a tragic car accident on a late night highway - most milestones of the human journey, good or bad, are foreshadowed by the sound of a ringing.
~ Mitch Albom
DOST thou not hear the silver bell, Through yonder lime-trees ringing? 'Tis my lady's light gazelle. To me her love thoughts bringing, — All the while that silver bell Around his dark neck ringing.
~ Thomas Moore
There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
~ Billy Porter
Dressed in their red suits and fake beards, they rang their bells like they were going for dog-spit gold at the Pavlov Olympics.
~ Christopher Moore
hey O! And a ringing and a dinging Rang from old iron! Wily old iron. With a beat and a bang on the bones of the land, I conquered wily old iron!
~ Christopher Paolini
I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.
~ James Nachtwey
This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still. Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
~ Cornelia Funke
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'
~ Tim Vine
I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.
~ Tim Winton
Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.
~ Billy Graham
The bells were ringing again, high in the scudding sunlight in bright disorderly tatters of sound.
~ William Faulkner
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
~ David Foster Wallace
No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waiting for the situation to change.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Rooks were cawing somewhere, and bells were ringing, and from the oxpens the steady beat of a gas engine announced the ascent of the evening Royal Mail zeppelin for London.
~ Philip Pullman
Memories aren't rags that come clean with enough ringing.
~ Dean Koontz
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.
~ Katie Leclerc
The phone rang again almost the instant I put it down, making me jump. I peered at it. I don't trust electronics. Anything manufactured after the forties is suspect—
~ Jim Butcher
The silence of a place where there were once horses is a mountain and I have seen by lightning that ever mountain once fell from the air ringing like the chime of an iron shoe...
~ W.S. Merwin
Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.
~ Louise Rennison