Quotes about Bells

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Bells are musics laughter. Votes: 3

Bells, the poor man's only music. Votes: 3

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music... Votes: 3

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision. Votes: 3

Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church. Votes: 3

I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!' Votes: 3

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee Votes: 3

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music. Votes: 3

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Votes: 3

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy. Votes: 3

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. Votes: 3

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. Votes: 3

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Votes: 3

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff. Votes: 3

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. Votes: 3

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. Votes: 3

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. Votes: 3

I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the Stars Home.' Votes: 3

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Votes: 3

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up. Votes: 3

My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix... Votes: 3

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully Votes: 3

Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Votes: 3

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. Votes: 3

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. Votes: 3

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. Votes: 3

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do. Votes: 3

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell. Votes: 3

And London shops on Christmas Eve Are strung with silver bells and flowers As hurrying clerks the City leave To pigeon-haunted classic towers, And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky Votes: 3

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. Votes: 3

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. Votes: 3

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away! Votes: 3

Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt... Votes: 3

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance. Votes: 3

Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with quantum theory... Bells theorem demonstrates that the universe is fundamentally interconnected, interdependent, and inseparable. Votes: 3

The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews. Votes: 3

Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking. Votes: 3

I first heard music while in the womb. My mom tells me she played Tubular Bells with the headphones against her stomach all the time. A bit disturbing as I believe that is the theme to The Exorcist. Maybe she thought she was having Satan's baby. Votes: 3

Is that why you said all that stuff earlier-because you were trying to protect me? Because if it was, I'll tell you it was the sweetest kindest thing, and if you ever do it again, I'll smack you upside the head until your ears ring 'Jingle Bells Votes: 3

So happy that Broken Bells is a thing in my life and really cool in so many ways. Not only, like, as something to sell records and be a band and whatnot, but just to give me an outlet and give me a fresh approach on things. Votes: 3

I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with. Votes: 2

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. Votes: 1

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower. Votes: 1

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was. Votes: 1

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. Votes: 1

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. Votes: 1

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading. Votes: 1

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles. Votes: 1

Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles. Votes: 1

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches. Votes: 1

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat. Votes: 1

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. Votes: 1

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. Votes: 1

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. Votes: 1

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown - all right, nobody voted for him but, you know... just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello. Votes: 1

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another. Votes: 1

I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing. Votes: 1

The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Truth rings no bells. Votes: 0

From one bell all the bells toll. Votes: 0

Ring the bells that still can ring. Votes: 0

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. Votes: 0

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories Votes: 0

Not a word was spoken. The church bells all were broken. Votes: 0

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells. Votes: 0

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music. Votes: 0

The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells. Votes: 0

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Votes: 0

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead. Votes: 0

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring. Votes: 0

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. Votes: 0

There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland. Votes: 0

From the shaken tower A flock of bells take flight, And go with the hour. Votes: 0

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden. Votes: 0

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Votes: 0

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. Votes: 0

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. Votes: 0

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air. Votes: 0

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring. Votes: 0

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim! Votes: 0

Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring Votes: 0

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks Yo sound the bells school is in sucker Votes: 0

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up. Votes: 0

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ... Votes: 0

You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents. Votes: 0

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. Votes: 0

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... Votes: 0

You can set off bells when you walk out of a drugstore or department store with a tagged item. Votes: 0

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. Votes: 0

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells. Votes: 0

God always gives a great blessing to humble beginnings than to those that start with the chiming of bells. Votes: 0

I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s. Votes: 0

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world. Votes: 0

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. Votes: 0

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights. Votes: 0

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music. Votes: 0

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. Votes: 0

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old. Votes: 0

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world. Votes: 0

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! Votes: 0

See the wild birds on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When you feel like singin', sing-- Keep a-goin'! Votes: 0

If you must use dumbbells for daily training, use heavy ones with fewer repetitions rather than light bells with numerous repetitions Votes: 0

My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school. Votes: 0

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells. Votes: 0

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions. Votes: 0

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse. Votes: 0

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time. Votes: 0

Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. Votes: 0

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. Votes: 0

Family planning experts are now recommending giving men vasectomy gift cards for the holidays. Talk about taking the jingle out of the bells. Votes: 0

Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. Votes: 0

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end Votes: 0

Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad Votes: 0

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? Votes: 0

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age. Votes: 0

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well. Votes: 0

Finally found my paradise...on a beach in Clearwater. When I die ring the bells and bury me at sea...a few steps from my home! Votes: 0

When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen. Votes: 0

Panic bells, it's red alertThere's something hereFrom somewhere elseThe war machine springs to lifeOpens up one eager eyeFocusing it on the skyWhere 99 red balloons go by Votes: 0

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended. Votes: 0

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did. Votes: 0

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said! Votes: 0

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Votes: 0

I like to jump some rope and swing kettle bells to get my blood pumping. It makes my voice sound better, and it clears my head. Votes: 0

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock. Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring. Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun. Now the jingle hop has begun. Votes: 0

Forest deep, silent bells There's a secret no one tells Valley quiet, water still Lynburns watching on the hill Apples red, corn gold Almost everyone grows old Votes: 0

I listened to the bells on the doorand stole more than enough bottles for myselfto understand that everyone's chestis a living room wallwith awkwardly placed photographshiding fist-shaped holes. Votes: 0

The church-bells of innumerable sects are all chime-bells to-day, ringing in sweet accordance throughout many lands, and awaking a great joy in the heart of our common humanity. Votes: 0

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime! Votes: 0

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion. Votes: 0

What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. Votes: 0

The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Votes: 0

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!. Votes: 0

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time... Votes: 0

The GH50L is a monster of an amp. It's refreshing to play an amplifier that is loaded with tone but without unnecessary bells and whistles. Raw and powerful. Votes: 0

With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling. Votes: 0

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come. Votes: 0

Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout. Votes: 0

Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat Votes: 0

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow. Votes: 0

The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. Votes: 0

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens. Votes: 0

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw. Votes: 0

Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set? Votes: 0

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems. Votes: 0

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner. For one day to be over and the next day to begin. Votes: 0

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors. Votes: 0

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol that you sing Right within your heart. Votes: 0

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells. Votes: 0

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie. Votes: 0

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe. Votes: 0

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available. Votes: 0

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger. Votes: 0

It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace. Votes: 0

Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring; Some of their music, though my fights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing! Votes: 0

While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo. Votes: 0

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it. Votes: 0

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat? Votes: 0

When we arrive at eternity's shore Where death is just a memory and tears are no more We'll enter in as the wedding bells ring Your bride will come together and we'll sing, 'You're beautiful' Votes: 0

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells. Votes: 0