Top 100 Bell Quotes
#1. The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.
John Curtin
#2. If I have pizza or Taco Bell one day, I'll have home-cooked meals the next. I try to listen to what my body craves.
Ashlee Simpson
#3. At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
Sylvester Stallone
#4. I read many years ago that Billy Graham's wife, Ruth, was asked, "How is your marriage so successful?" She replied, "Because he plays golf, and I play bridge." Ruth Bell Graham understood the value of outside sources of life for a marriage to flourish.
Henry Cloud
#5. This is interesting. Researchers have found that people who drive drunk are more dangerous on the road than drivers who are high on marijuana. Don't get too excited. It's mostly because the drivers using marijuana are just sitting in the Taco Bell drive-through.
Jimmy Fallon
#6. I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.
Jimmy Smith
#7. Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.
Sergei Bongart
#8. 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.
Tom Ford
#9. I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
Beck
#10. Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.
Emile Hirsch
#11. Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.
Jon Tester
#12. The era of bell curve distributions that supported a bulging social middle class is over and we are headed for the power-law distribution of economic opportunities. Education per se is not going to make up the difference.
Erik Brynjolfsson
#13. Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.
Charles Kingsley
#14. We're all going to die, Johnny. Hit the iron bell like it's dinnertime.
Cheryl Strayed
#15. Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher
#16. A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell.
Michael Sheen
#17. There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#18. Some people can detect the odor molecules in a green bell pepper at a concentration of less than one part per trillion. That is like picking out one grain of sand from a mile-long beach.
Neil Shubin
#19. I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire
R.E. Bradshaw
#20. You're offering to help us against those things down there, when it seems to me that you'd want to be down there with them, looking up at us, waiting for the dinner bell to ring.
M.R. Carey
#21. You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?
Virginia Woolf
#22. Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.
Patrick Rothfuss
#23. Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.
Deion Sanders
#24. In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life.
Jane Goldman
#25. I walk in just as the bell is ringing, and I'm in a serious daze. It's lucky that my hands seem to know my locker combination, because my brain has checked out. People talk to me, and I nod along, but absolutely nothing penetrates.
Becky Albertalli
#26. I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little
not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.
Mark Twain
#27. Was there such a thing as lucky bows? Amy Lou decided to find out. By the time the bell rang for lunch, Amy Lou had
C. Shifaw
#28. The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.
Tibor Fischer
#29. Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")
Tanith Lee
#30. The leader is the bell ringer, the trumpet blower, the drum beater, the vibration maker, and the vision caster ... A great leader imparts the burden, inspires commitment, and sets the pace for achievement of God's purpose.
Phil Pringle
#31. I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart
Madonna Ciccone
#32. We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head.
Mark Twain
#33. 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)
Elizabeth Gaskell
#34. Hey, fuck you," Lucas said. "What!" Pole started to move at Lucas, but saw something in Lucas's eyes that made him take a step back. Bell Wood got between them and Lucas growled, "Stay away from me, asshole.
John Sandford
#35. Consider me your rescuer, not your jailer," he said to Frankie, without looking at her. His gut told him that, on the criminal mastermind scale, this one landed closer to Tinker Bell than Lizzie Borden.
Roxanne Snopek
#36. To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. - BELL HOOKS1
Brene Brown
#38. The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.
Gustave Le Bon
#39. What about Ding-Dong?"
"Detective Inspector Bell couldn't find his arse with both hands if you duct-taped them to it. Come on.
Stuart MacBride
#40. I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#41. 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.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#42. May death be no more than the bell that sounds when school is over, and going home, may I find that I had laid up my treasure in the right place.
Maltbie Davenport Babcock
#43. In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
Madison Smartt Bell
#44. Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.
James Laughlin
#45. You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!
Joseph Jarman
#46. Ash sarcastically rang an invisible bell with his hand. Ding, ding, ding. Give that boy a trophy.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#47. Love is letting others know the good your parents have done. - James Stuart Bell
Gary Chapman
#48. TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
Ambrose Bierce
#49. God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
#50. Dean, Maya's just a little girl. She has a lot of energy and needs," his mother went on. "We just can't give that to her. You're young and Silver Bell Falls is a wonderful place for her to grow up.
Samantha Chase
#51. Chrysta Bell looks like a dream and Chrysta Bell sings like a dream. And the dream is coming true.
David Lynch
#52. Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
Joe Louis
#53. Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.
A.J. Darkholme
#54. An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
Colin Meloy
#55. A false ring of the night bell, once answered - it can never be made right.
Franz Kafka
#56. But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
Andrew Motion
#57. A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#58. Finally the bell rings and the teenage Pavlovian dogs mosve to the next kennel.
Carrie Jones
#60. In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
Mae Whitman
#61. God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
Thomas Carlyle
#62. 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.
John Donne
#63. We did get to keep a few choice items. I kept a few pairs of slacks and power suits that stood out. I still have a few outstanding pieces from 'Saved by the Bell' simply because they were from 'Saved by the Bell.' They're vaulted in my storage space.
Lark Voorhies
#64. While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.
Arthur Rimbaud
#65. 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.
Jeffrey Kluger
#66. I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.
Eminem
#67. And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer.
Mike Carey
#68. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.
Loudon Wainwright III
#69. From the beginning, when something was wrong I've been saying: 'Dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up, wake up!' So on Christmas Day I bought for all the players and all the staff a little bell. It was just a joke.
Claudio Ranieri
#71. Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
Georges Bidault
#72. I made a concerned effort to focus. There was something I needed to say. The most important thing.
I love you," I said, but it sounded like singing. My voice rang and shimmered like a bell.
As i love you,"He told me.
Stephenie Meyer
#73. She performed a few Bacharach songs next: "Close to You," "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," "Walk On By," plus Laura Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues.
Haruki Murakami
#74. Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell, like, How the hell was a writer supposed to know when she was one-fifth through her novel-writing, so she could cut a door into the wall and shove her character out into the forest?
L.L. Barkat
#75. 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!
Oscar Hammerstein II
#76. 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.
Burl Ives
#77. Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.
Jane Fonda
#78. I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day!
Dante Hall
#80. This free use of the line for flirtation purposes has grown to an alarming extent," he wrote, "and if it is to go on somebody must pay for it." The Bell companies tried to discourage frivolous telephony, particularly by women and servants.
James Gleick
#81. Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#82. Noah held my hand and my bag as he escorted me to the third floor - the Women's Pavilion. The elevator bell rang and the doors opened.
"Jesus, Echo, circulation in my hand would be a good thing," said Noah.
"Sorry." I tried to let go, but Noah kept his fingers linked with mine.
Katie McGarry
#83. Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Murasaki Shikibu
#84. I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'
Emmanuelle Seigner
#85. She is called Tinker Bell because she mends the pots and kettles.
J.M. Barrie
#86. On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
Virginia Postrel
#87. I rang the bell of this small bed-and breakfast place, whereupon a lady appeared at an outside window. "What do you want?", she asked. "I want to stay here", I replied. "Well, stay there then", she said and closed the window.
Chic Murray
#88. The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.
Jessica Valenti
#89. Tragically, it was Vince Masuoka who finally answered that lame question. "Grasshopper," he said, shaking his head wisely, on the morning when he overheard me turning down Miami Hoy for the third time. "When temple bell rings, crane must fly.
Jeff Lindsay
#90. I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
Syd Barrett
#91. Well, bugger me," cried Jonas when he saw Richie with his bow, "is it Robin Hood or Adam Bell come to save us? Nay, it's Richie O'the Bow, hero of ballad and song!
David Pilling
#92. End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave
inspired hy a road sign she saw.
Billy Graham
#93. . . .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.
Bruce Marshall
#94. If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley ... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
Sadie Frost
#95. I love red bell peppers. Bell peppers in general, really. I like to eat them like apples. They're so crunchy and delicious.
Alex Honnold
#96. The bell from the restaurant doors chimed behind them and Blake walked out. He stopped beside Holiday. "Is everything okay?" He cut his gaze to Burnett.
Burnett, eyes ablaze, pulled Holiday to his side.
"That depends," said Burnett, "on how quickly you get your ass away from here.
C.C. Hunter
#97. Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat
Tamora Pierce
#98. Aren't faeries supposed to be, like, really tiny? With wings and a wand and faerie dust?"
"I'm not Tinker Bell!
Rachel Morgan
#99. May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time ...
Charlotte Turner Smith
#100. So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.
Clive Barker
