Quotes About Bell

If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.

Sometimes we took refuge in our diving bell while waves of charge and magnetism spiraled languidly past, like boluses of ectoplasm coursing down the intestine of some poltergeist god.

In this unsettled world, it is good to have this steadiness—the Christmas Eve service, the peal of the bell, the star atop the Peacocks' silo, the saints burdened with concern. There is a holiness to memory, a sense of God's presence in these mangers of the mind. Which might explain why it is that the occasions that change the least are often the very occasions that change us the most.

Golrandonvar?' asked the Doctor. 'No, it doesn't ring a bell, I'm afraid. But then I've visited such a lot of places … Did it look a bit like a gravel pit? You'd be amazed how many alien worlds look just like gravel pits …

I understand right enough," the stranger said slowly. "I just wanted to make sure you did. You had the greatest gift of all conferred upon you—the gift of life, of being a part of this world and taking a part in it. Yet you denied that gift." As the stranger spoke, the church bell high up on the hill sounded, calling the townspeople to Christmas vespers. Then the downtown church bell started ringing.

He hosted a series of lunches – Les Dejeuners de Gustave Le Bon – for politicians and prominent society people. He'd sit at the head of the table with a bell by his side. If one of his guests said something he disagreed with he'd pick up the bell and ring it relentlessly until the person stopped talking.

He hosted a series of lunches—les déjeuners du mercredi—for politicians and prominent society people. He'd sit at the head of the table with a bell by his side. If one of his guests said something he disagreed with, he'd pick up the bell and ring it relentlessly until the person stopped talking. All over the world, famous people began declaring themselves LeBon fans.

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.

Sorprende y admira, por ejemplo, la franqueza con que Bell aborda el episodio de los abusos que Virginia sufrió de niña por parte de su hermanastro George Duckworth, un trauma que podría explicar tanto su sexualidad difícil como los constantes desequilibrios psíquicos que finalmente la conducirían al suicidio.

Remember the old guy with the bell?

Like the silence that surrounds the tolling of the bell allows you to hear the bell.

In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o'clock – similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to say pi.

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.

It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their hearts, the day they have bidden dear friends farewell, and pierces the new traveler with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day.

Pink with embarrassment, she pushed the bell.

The shrill note of a bell made them both jump. "That's the front door," said Giles. "Enter - a murderer," he added facetiously.

said Mrs Willett with forced cheerfulness. 'I think we'd better have cocktails. Will you ring the bell, Mr Garfield?

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Everything smelled of sheep. The dandelions were suddenly more sheep than flower, each petal reflecting wool and the sound of a bell ringing off the yellow. But the thing that smelled the most like sheep, was the very sun itself. When the sun went behind a cloud, the smell of the sheep decreased, like standing on some old guy's hearing aid, and when the sun came back again, the smell of the sheep was loud, like a clap of thunder inside a coffee cup. (from On Paradise, page 50)

His voice surprised her: a baritone with the depth of a bell and deliciously frayed at the edges, it was like stumbling into a patch of sunlight on a relentlessly gray day.

Poi, prima di riprender sonno, mi chiedevo se, nei boschi, Lulu aveva mai sognato la sua campana.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.