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Quotes About Bells

The cry of the bells had condensed even further until it sounded like a single, crazed voice clanging out over the city.
~ Storm Constantine
She supposed that weddings in Magrast were stately and joyless. The bride would be meek and pale and frightened, and huge bells would clang over them, threatening to shatter their fragile bodies.
~ Storm Constantine
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
~ Thomas Mann
În realitate, timpul nu are desp?rÈ›ituri, la începutul unei luni sau al unui nou an nu exist? nici tunete, nici furtuni, nici sunete de trâmbiÈ›e, È™i chiar È™i în zorii unui secol numai oamenii sunt cei care trag cu puÈ™ca È™i sun? din clopot.
~ Thomas Mann
Bells] speak to us of our freedom, which responsibilities and transient cares make us forget.
~ Thomas Merton
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
~ George Moore
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells
~ Tom Holt
Tilli stroked her Chihuahua. Max's heart made a sound like the sleigh bells on Mrs. Santa Claus's dildo.
~ Tom Robbins
Max's heart made a sound like the sleigh bells on Mrs. Santa Claus's dildo.
~ Tom Robbins
for a moment, all bells ring true.
~ Carl Phillips
I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting and I put on a big show and we have a lot of stuff, but I feel confident in myself enough as an artist and a singer that I can have all of those fun toys and know that we don't need all the bells and whistles either.
~ Carrie Underwood
One thing all the stories agreed on: King Robert was dead. The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the city in a bronze tide. They only rang the bells like that for the death of a king, a tanner's boy told Arya.
~ George R.R. Martin
I read bells. Not the sound of bells, no, no, but the feel of bells, the emotion of bells, the bright clanging joy, the hooting-shouting-ringing loudness, the song of the Joined, the togetherness and the sharing of it all.
~ George R.R. Martin
meant an even longer winter, but the maester saw no reason to frighten the child with such tales. Patchface rang his bells. "It is always summer under the sea," he intoned. "The merwives wear nennymoans in their hair and weave gowns of silver seaweed. I know,
~ George R.R. Martin
As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his regret, his remorse at having divulged his worries grow at the sight of the noble swans, sealed-in snow, which, prisoners of the canals, prey to the rain, the sadness of the bells, the shadow of the gables, have the modesty to remain silent and only complain, with a voice that is almost human, when they are about to die...
~ Georges Rodenbach
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
~ Walt Whitman
Got a problem." "I can't fix your personality, sorry." Lassiter laughed, the sound ringing through the house like church bells. "No. I like myself just as I am, thank you." "Can't help your delusional nature, either.
~ J.R. Ward
Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells.
~ Jay Leno
The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which
~ Neal Stephenson
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
I won't hurt him," said the oaf, so inept in the lie that he might as well have tied bells on the truth and chased it around the town square while beating a drum.
~ Christopher Moore
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
~ Victor Hugo
Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church. Fonny was doing: time. In six months time, our baby would be here. Somewhere, in time, Fonny and I had met: somewhere, in time, we had loved; somewhere, no longer in time, but, now, totally, at time's mercy, we loved.
~ James Baldwin