Quotes About Ringing A Bell

#1. He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

Chuck Berry

#2. Whenever you fire a gun, it's like ringing a bell for Pavlov's dog.

Bobby Adair

#3. He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

Chuck Berry

#4. How Nathan doesn't know I fancy him is beyond me. I may as well walk around with a sandwich board, saying 'I heart Nathan', ringing a bell

Samantha Towle

#5. I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.

Dodie Smith

#6. In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#7. DOST thou not hear the silver bell,
Through yonder lime-trees ringing?
'Tis my lady's light gazelle.
To me her love thoughts bringing,
All the while that silver bell
Around his dark neck ringing.

Thomas Moore

#8. There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

William Shakespeare

#10. Even after the ringing stopped, the sound of the bell lingered through the evening gloom like the dust floating in the air.

Haruki Murakami

#11. 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

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

Beck

#13. Two blades clashed, ringing like a bell. Like all small boys, Philip thought his father was invincible; and this was the moment when he learned the truth.

Ken Follett

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

Charles Williams

#15. The bell that measures time is ringing

Margaret Atwood

#16. The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through ... ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.

Jonathan Franzen

#17. Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#18. The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

#19. His voice is unmuffled - it is like a bell, clearly ringing in the night of our confusion; but the clarity is the clarity of imponderable depth ...

Mervyn Peake

#20. But now there were ten bells. And the bell for Lost-Hope was ringing violently.

Susanna Clarke

#21. I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

Benito Mussolini

#22. In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

Andrew Eldritch

#23. Unconsciousness obeyed the wispy psyche, and of some tiresome wanting, I would, no longer want my body again, when the soul was somewhere beyond the horizon.My Pains are swelling in me; agony crept to me in all of its forms.

Nithin Purple

#24. I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell ... seems to be intrusive. They can call me on their cell phones.

Malcolm Gladwell

#25. I'd smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~ Jaz

Jennifer Rardin

#26. The green has widened for an Arcadian delight, and over the sky, the sun had departed. But the moonlit beams unshackled the sulky spells of life. Moon adorned with eloquent jewelry of purple as a semblance to her inward gloom and outward passion.

Nithin Purple

#27. I felt I wrote my views of my experience with mere encouragement I got in Earth, I researched like a wanderer did, with songs of my creation ever had in me and I would be pleased to give away my knowledge to mankind like my ashes I diffuse with my society.

Nithin Purple

#28. He wanted to be all poetic, but in an instant he forgot Joe's poem about Japan except the part about 'you are the bell, and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,' and a new sound entered his life ...

Melina Marchetta

#29. I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Jo Brand

#30. Some girl named Eva has him convinced that you put out after one beer."
"What?" My voice was as shrill as the ringing tardy bell
"I personally don't believe it" he went on blithely, "and I have a Porsche. Not as much leg room as a Beamer, but so much hotter, I'm told.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#31. One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

#32. Shoulder up, I reeled around to face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs; instead, I saw Dill ringing the bell with all his might in Atticus's face.

Harper Lee

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

Arthur Conan Doyle