(231 quotes found)
“I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!”
Alan Jay Lerner
“No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”
William Shakespeare
“The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bellA moment yet the actor stopsAnd looks around to say farewell.It is an irksome word and task:And when he's laughed and said his say,He shows, as he removes the mask,A face that's anything but gay.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.”
“Invest in yourself. It's like being a boxer, you've got to be in training so that when the bell rings, you get your direction you come out of the corner and you're *ready*. Do not let the audition be the first thing you've done in six months.”
Karl Urban
“I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family”
Douglas Jerrold
“And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”
John Donne
“A fighter never knows when it's the last bell. He doesn't want to face that.”
Sugar Ray Leonard
“Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.”
Lord Lyttelton
“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
Matsuo Basho