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Quotes About Bell

Sergent Earl Hale sent us out to get transportation. We went out to look for what we could find. We came across Hitler's car, but it had no wheels. We found a bus, but it wouldn't start. We saw a fire truck and took that. On the way back to camp we had a wonderful time ringing the bell. Hale was upset. He didn't want a fire truck. - Henry Zimmerman
~ Marcus Brotherton
The bell that measures time is ringing
~ Margaret Atwood
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
~ Karolyn Grimes
If I tap that little bell," he told a visitor, obviously relishing the notion, "I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.
~ Shelby Foote
Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick) Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a trophy.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
His true voice rang Kit like a bell, with a sensation of flying. Or falling.
~ Elizabeth Bear
While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Miss Lucy's called the bell o' St. Ogg's, they say: that's a cur'ous word,' observed Mr. Pullet, on whom the mysteries of etymology sometimes fell with an oppressive weight.
~ George Eliot
A song is not a song until you sing it A bell is not a bell until you ring it Love is not Love until you give it away
~ George Gershwin
The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!
~ John Tyler
I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.
~ Don King
The message of the bell, the singer's tragic tone announcing it, underlined life's inflexible call to order, reaffirming the illusory nature of love and pleasure.
~ Anthony Powell
My wife was on a visit to her aunt's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street. 'Why,' said I, glancing up at my companion, 'that was surely the bell? Who could come tonight? Some friend of yours, perhaps?' 'Except yourself I have none,' he answered. 'I do not encourage visitors.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. I walked into the shrine through the red arch and struck the bell. I bowed twice. I clapped twice. I whispered to the foreign goddess and bowed again. And then I heard the shouts and the fire. What I asked for? Any life but this one.
~ Ellis Avery
There is a whole range of melancholy: it begins with a smile and a landscape and ends with the clang of a broken bell in the soul
~ Emil Cioran
Exist? o întreag? gam? a melancoliei: începe prin surâs ÅŸi peisaj ÅŸi sfârÅŸeÅŸte în dang?t de clopot spart în suflet. De aici, gustul diferit al lacrimilor.
~ Emil Cioran
I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.
~ Shannon Sharpe
The bell that measures time is ringing
~ Margaret Atwood
she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it
~ Mark Twain
We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head.
~ Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the bell. Who could come tonight? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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.
~ Ayn Rand
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
~ Stephen Chbosky