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… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
And all the world is football-shaped It's just for me to kick in space And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In order to always treat others, as we would wish to be treated ourselves, we have to learn about each other. Not… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny… — Peter Som Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
...May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning… — Charlotte Turner Smith Copy Share Image
On paper curiously shaped Scribblers to-day of every sort, In verses Valentines ycled'd To Venus chime their annual court. I too will… — Henry George Bohn Copy Share Image
“We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Chime out, thou little song of Spring, Float in the blue skies ravishing. Thy song-of-life a joy doth bring That's sweet, albeit… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image