Bells Quotes - Page 21

• Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Yet market timing appears to be increasingly embraced by mutual fund investors and the professional managers of fund portfolios alike.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Ideas, Investing

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• anyone lived in a pretty how town
  (with up so floating many bells down)
  spring summer autumn winter
  he sang his didn't he danced his did.

  e. e. cummings

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  '50 Poems' (1949) no. 29

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• I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Confused, Ears

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loaves of bread among the poor beggars at the gate. He was sorely tried as to whether he should lose a scene so inspiring. He went to his act of mercy; and when he came back the vision remained more glorious than ever.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Cells, Vision

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 26, 1895.

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• The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Together, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Silver Bells, Icy, Bells Ringing

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

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• Religion is a bell jar; you cannot find God in that jar, because it is your bell jar, you have created it! Break the glass prison and get fresh air, elevate your intelligence! Wake up and open your eyes; see the truth beyond your prison! If you can't break the glass, don't worry; science will do it for you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Science, Glasses

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• the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell
  buoys,
  advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which
  dropped things are bound to sink--
  in which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor
  consciousness.

  Marianne Moore

  Ocean, Sea, Noise

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.102, Univ of California Press

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• I thought no more was needed
  Youth to prolong
  Than dumb-bell and foil
  To keep the body young.
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sadness, Dumb

  'A Song'

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• ... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

  William James

  Tolls, Truth Is, Certain

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, World, Rounds

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• The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!

  Elizabeth I

  Death, Names, Dying

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• Take what the old-church
  found in Mithra's tomb,
  candle and script and bell,
  take what the new-church spat upon
  and broke and shattered.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Poetry, Church, Iconoclasm

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Faces, Want, Lasts

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2015

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• I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

  Sxip Shirey

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Order

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• The slaves of custom and established mode,
  With pack-horse constancy we keep the road
  Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
  True to the jingling of our leader's bells.

  William Cowper

  Horse, Leader, Slave

  William Cowper (1785). “Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir”, p.207

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• I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

  Luanne Rice

  Stars, Home, Silver Bells

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• I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Boxing, Goes On

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Gospel ministers should not only be like dials on watches, or mile-stones upon the road, but like clocks and larums, to sound the alarm to sinners. Aaron wore bells as well as pomegranates, and the prophets were commanded to lift up their voice like a trumpet. A sleeping sentinel may be the loss of the city.

  Joseph Hall

  Sleep, Loss, Cities

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• 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

  Morning, Freedom, Gestapo

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

  Erica Jong

  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope
  and prayers.

  Walter Cronkite

  Prayer, Law, Desire

  Address on receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the UN Delegates Dining Room, October 19, 1999.

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• straightway like a bell
  Came low and clear
  The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Sea, Lows, Clear

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• Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Running, Gun, Dancing

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