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Bells Quotes - Page 6

Who will bell the cat?

William Langland (1874). “The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman”, p.101

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

God comes to see without a bell.

George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.304

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

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

'The Complaint: Night Thoughts' (1742-5) 'Night 1' l. 55

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.

Edmond Rostand, Howard Thayer Kingsbury (2004). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

From one bell all the bells toll.

"The Shape". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "Bells", Chapter: "The Bell of the Shape", p. 35), July 14, 2012.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

"Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.

William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.15, Macmillan

To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.

William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.3959, Delphi Classics

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

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