Bells Quotations

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.

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.

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

I visualized high school as being like ‘Saved By the Bell.’

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.

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.

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

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.

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

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

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.

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.

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish confiding moment I try to explain why I want to re-live those old days, to tear the Truth out of the past so that all men shall see plainly, perhaps someone will say to me, 'Oh, the War! A tragedy - best forgotten.'

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

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.

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

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.

When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

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

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

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

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.

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

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.

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.

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

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

Precious to me—it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer...

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!.

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

The world seemed a bad and terrible place, all its denizens suspect, and I the lamb wandering through the valley of death with a bell around my neck.

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.

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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.

The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive.

Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

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?

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.

One wonders whether the government showed up with a court order or an opinion letter from the attorney general. The Bells should at the very least inquire about the law that governs their situation. I hope a conversation ensued after the government made the request.

Obviously, the machines are big and fancy and there are bells and whistles. But they're just a fancy way of dispensing tickets.

Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

If this hunt goes through, there will be other requests coming to the Russian government to hunt belugas. Before long we could have a hunt of a couple thousand Belugas. Once you start commercial whaling in any species, you have to make sure all of the bells and whistles are in place, that all the regulations are there from A to Z. Every time we have had a commercial hunt of whales there has been over-exploitation.

I believe there's a lot of great marketers out there who know how to package things. Are these goodies that you want and need to pay for. Or is it bells and whistles that you don't need?

Fundamentals for the Bells are going to continue to deteriorate over the next couple of quarters.

If a landlord is insisting on getting cash, that should be ringing alarm bells for people.

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

I would've been very happy to go into halftime at 6-0, but we had a couple upperclassmen get their bells rung and we didn't have the depth to cover it up. That touchdown was a back-breaker,

It comes with a licensing program and all the bells and whistles that a full-time primary sponsor would have.

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.

I was actually in the midst of breakfast, and Angela Tarantino, who does publicity at HBO, called me -- very excited, shrieking into the phone. It was very nice. ... 'Sex and the City' won last year, which was so exciting, but Sarah and I weren't out there because we are doing plays in New York. So you can be sure we will be there this year with bells on this time around.

People are bringing out electronic locks with bells and whistles, all sorts of features. Yet our good old, mechanical push-button lock still dominates the (keyless-access-control) market because there is such a strong demand out there for what we call basic keyless convenience.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out wild bells and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go;

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

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. "This class isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know." "Vee? As in virgin?" "Not so loud." She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.

When it comes to exercise equipment, you really do get what you pay for. The low-end stuff won't have all the bells and whistles of the more expensive equipment, plus you'll have more maintenance issues and it's likely to wear out sooner.

We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security.

We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.

Travelers aren't asking for much. According to this survey, airlines should forget about the latest bells and whistles and get back to the basics, like clean bathrooms and comfortable seating.

When I first saw a rough cut of it, I knew it was going to have some kind of bells and whistles.

We made it a policy to ring the bells for tourists, but it is private property. Some just ring them, but we haven't had any problems.

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

The only advantage for the Bells to go to court would be if they are looking to fold their operation and want someone to blame. I have no reason to think that's the case here.

I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.

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

Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

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.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music...

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

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

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.

There's going to be a real ding dong when the bell goes.

Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.

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

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

We know that material costs have gone up, and I think we can get a 5,000-seat stadium and the 15 courts, ... some of the whistles and bells we looked at might not be there.

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

We knew there would be a tremendous competitive advantage over the Bells and satellite companies if we could create a way to integrate wireless and broadband products into one simple offering,

Every time Microsoft nails additional, insubstantial bells and whistles on a new version of Office, they increase the relevancy of Linux alternatives.

While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.

We had a small company meeting, where we said if a car rings any bells like it might be a flood car, we want to know about it in the office, first thing.