Top 52 Quotes About Chimes
#1. I'll say she's brave," Grandma chimes in. "She's going to England day after tomorrow to hump some guy she barely knows.
Meg Cabot
#2. True friends are always near, the Goddess said. Beneath the eyelids on a stormy night, around the bend in a wicked dream, hearkening to the future by the chimes of their companion's call.
Mary-Jean Harris
#3. I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.'
Christian McKay
#5. Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound - wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm - the tango, obviously.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. It's not a purse, Rose," Connor chimes in, his lips rising. "It's your future." His amusement is palpable.
Krista Ritchie
#7. For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
Rebecca McNutt
#10. In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#11. The walls and windows popped in staccato percussion as they relinquished the heat of the day. The soft chimes of the mantle clock supplied a beckoning melody.
Laura Rudacille
#12. Her laugh sounds like wind chimes.
Emery Lord
#13. No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.
George Eliot
#14. All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking together like macabre wind chimes as they pendulated in the lurching trees.
Edward M. Erdelac
#16. Girls should be strong together. Strong like steel, merry like the tinkling of chimes dancing in the wind.
Kristin Halbrook
#17. I prefer the Yankees,' one of the blueshirts chimes in.
'If I want your opinion, I'll rattle the bars in your cage,' Lombardazzi said. 'Until then, shut up and die right.
Stephen King
#18. Too much success is not an advantage.
Do not tinkle like jade
Or clatter like stone chimes.
Laozi
#19. I wanted to freeze this moment forever, the chimes, the slight splash of water, the chink of dogs' leashes, laughter from the pool, the skritch of my mother's dip-pen, the smell of the tree, the stillness. I wished I could shut it in a locket to wear around my neck. I
Janet Fitch
#20. God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love.
Joshua L. Liebman
#21. My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.
James Nasmyth
#22. Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
Paul Muldoon
#23. Big Ben ... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.
Jane Birkin
#24. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.
Rhonda Hughes
#25. Somewhere in the shadows a clock vomited up a few sluggish chimes.
Joe Abercrombie
#26. The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips.
L.M. Montgomery
#27. A breeze lifted off the ocean and several hundred notes from the wind chimes tinkled like ice shaken in silver cups. They altered the mood of the forest the way an orchestra does a theater when it begins tuning up its instruments.
Pat Conroy
#28. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke
#29. They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."
Kathryn Lasky
#30. This was why he couldn't let Richard know it was the chimes themselves that were loose. Richard would not have accepted what Zedd intended, what Zedd knew he must do.
Terry Goodkind
#31. In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.
Nhat Hanh
#32. My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#33. The gabled eaves, with Legolandish civic pride, the church clock chimes nine golden times; an Alp rears up on every side;
David Mitchell
#34. 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 skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes.
Peter Som
#35. Listen,' she whispered and pointed towards the window. 'Whenever the wind blows from the east and the wind chimes dance in the moonlight, there is magic in the air.
Carole Carlton
#36. I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.
Sara Sheridan
#37. His high school girlfriend. I caught them in the act." "You caught them having sex at Homestyle Buffet?" Carlos chimes in, confused and maybe a little amused.
Simone Elkeles
#38. And she laughed, a full octave, descending from high C like chimes.
Mary Doria Russell
#39. Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.
Trey Anastasio
#40. Chimes?" Phyllis asked. "Chimes to call a lover? Chimes with the voice of a bird trapped in them? Chimes that play you whatever song you most desire to hear?"
"No thanks," said Nick. "We've got MTV.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#41. Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade.
James Shirley
#42. Those nights when the future seemed to last only till the morning and he would count off the hours, one by one, by the chimes of distant church bells.
Paolo Giordano
#43. Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells.
Leland Dirks
#44. People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.
Diana Georgeff
#45. Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze, leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Bob Dylan
#47. Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
#48. Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
Dante Alighieri
#49. The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.
Glenn Reynolds
#50. I'm looking for you
in the bare corridor
where my shadow is the only passerby
harmonizing an unsettling whisper:
echoed through my chiming thoughts
From the poem 'Looking For You
Munia Khan
#51. He can make even the act of putting on his dressing gown appear as a gesture of defiance.
Vincent Tilsley
#52. So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you!
Charles Dickens
