Bells Quotes
516 Bells quotes by 406 unique authors
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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell…
— Paul Weller
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness…
— A. N. Wilson
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Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently…
— Mark Helprin
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be…
— John Donne
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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
— Sylvia Plath
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
— Annie Dillard
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Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade,…
— William Shakespeare
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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…
— Christopher Moore
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O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near,…
— Walt Whitman
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because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass…
— Sylvia Plath
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs…
— William Shakespeare
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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along…
— Denise Levertov
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Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
— Daniel Handler
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Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...
— Kinky Friedman
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
— Sylvia Plath
Who Wrote These Bells Quotes
406 authors contributed a total of 516 Bells Quotes, led by these top contributors: