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Quotes About Bell

I shall find the dark grow luminous, the void fruitful when I understand I have nothing, that the ringers in the tower have appointed for the hymen of the soul a passing bell.
~ William Butler Yeats
His apology had the dull ring of a cracked bell, but I didn't see any point in needling him further.
~ William Kent Krueger
Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes, And chide the wayward passions that rebel: Yet boots it not to think, or to complain, Musing sad ditties to the reckless main. To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bell Speaks of the hour that stays not--and the day To life's sad turmoil calls my heart away.
~ WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES
When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.
~ Jesse Jackson
Very, very good Pavlov, all your dogs have barked when you rang the bell. Your test was successful.
~ Triple H
People there's a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le'Veon Bell. He's on his way people.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.
~ Steven Wright
It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.
~ Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
~ Frederick Douglass
Only remembering that a self in exile is still a self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell.
~ Jane Hirshfield
The self in exile remains the self, as a bell unstruck for years is still a bell.
~ Jane Hirshfield
My family grew up Pittsburgh Steelers fans, and it's crazy I even got drafted there.
~ Le'Veon Bell
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
~ Ezra Pound
Dalmatia," Nico said, making Jason jump. Holy Romulus . . . Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo's neck to remind him the guy was there. Nico had this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows.
~ Rick Riordan
All that coastline we've been sailing pas is it, but I guess back in the Roman times it was called ... what'd you say, Jason? Bodacious?' 'Dalmatia', Nico said, making Jason jump. Holy Romulus ... Jason wished he could put a bell around Nico di Angelo's neck to remind him the guy was there. Nico has this disturbing habit of standing silently in the corner, blending into the shadows.
~ Rick Riordan
Oh, geyser, my geyser, Let us spew then, you and I, Upon this midnight dreary, while we ponder Whose woods are these? For we have not gone gentle into this good night, But have wandered lonely as clouds. We seek to know for whom the bell tolls, So I hope, springs eternal, That the time has come to talk of many things!
~ Rick Riordan
There was a monastery on the far side of the town. The monks had a way of measuring the hours of the night: they made big, graduated candles that told the time as they burned down. One hour before dawn they would ring the bell, then get up to chant their service of Matins.
~ Ken Follett
It's fall coming, I thought, I can smell that sour-molasses smell of silage, clanging the air like a bell – smell like somebody's been burning oak leaves, left them to smolder overnight because they're too green.
~ Ken Kesey
In the deepening sky where the spearpoint firs scratch the clouds, already a moon—like a cast-off paring from the setting sun. This is Hank's bell, too.
~ Ken Kesey
Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year's Bell!
~ William Roetzheim
Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isleFrom her propriety.
~ William Shakespeare
The bell invites me.Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knellThat summons thee to heaven or to hell.
~ William Shakespeare
No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.
~ William Shakespeare
Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson