Andrew Eldritch

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.

English Musician

Martin Cooper

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good marketers and yet it was AT&T engineers who were deciding what the products of the future were.

American Scientist

Gerry Cooney

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

American Athlete

Henry Rollins

Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.

American Musician

Lizzie Andrew Borden

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

American Celebrity

Carlos Condit

It's not what you say or how you act. At the end of the day, when all is said and done, it's what you do when the bell rings that really matters.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Kamala Harris

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

American Vice President

Michael Moore

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

American Activist

Henry Mancini

I just write when the bell rings. I don't have time to wait for inspiration.

American Composer

Ken Cuccinelli

American Politician

The ringing of a bell often means something requires immediate attention or action.

Attention Signal

'Ringing a bell' can mean something sounds familiar or you're vaguely remembering it.

Common Idiom

Bells have historically been used for timekeeping or announcing events in a community.

Historical Use

Use 'bell' to describe the shape of something flaring outward, like the end of an instrument.

Visual Description

Not every instrument has a 'bell'; identify when this term is appropriate for the item.

Specific to Item

Church bells have significant religious and communal meaning in Christian practices.

Religious Symbol

In religious contexts, bells can mark times for prayer or services throughout the day.

Timekeeping Role

Belling an animal helps keep track of its location, especially if it roams freely.

Animal Locator

Bells aid shepherds or farmers in managing their livestock by audibly tracking them.

Herding Tool

In sports like boxing, 'bell' refers to the signal to start or stop a match.

Boxing Context

The timing of the bell in a boxing match can be crucial for the competitors' strategy.

Timing Importance

The term refers to the part of a device or a machine with a bell-like shape.

Mechanical Shape

Often, a bell-shaped cover serves to protect the inner components of a machine.

Protective Function

In botany, 'bell' describes plants with a distinctive bell-like shape.

Botanical Term

Use 'bell' to accurately convey botanical form in nature description and writing.

Naturalist Language

Bell-bottoms are a style of pants that widen at the ankle, a trend that has returned several times.

Fashion Trend

Clothing that 'bells out' can change the silhouette and visual impression of the wearer.

Visual Impact

 thousands of teachers have been reaching out to us class ringg for change so in the year ahead we are going to be partnering with schools to develop tools for parents and teachers to harness the talents of quiet children one final story there once was a boy who was so quiet and shy he used to run home from school as soon as the bell rang to avoid socializing with his

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 and he plots it on a curve, and all of a sudden he realizes it's not a nice bell curve. In fact, the data doesn't make any sense. It's a mess. It's all over the place. Now, most people in that business, in the world of testing food and such, are not dismayed when the data comes back a mess. They think, "Well, you know,

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 These are the sorts of messages I've been inundated with my entire Always keep your hands where they can see them, don't move too quickly, take off your hood when the sun goes down. My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the breath from our lungs,

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 And yet, a lot of the world is constructed around a foundation of normalcy. So what does normal actually mean— and should we be relying on it so much? In statistics, a normal distribution describes  a set of values that fall along a bell curve. The average, or mean, of all the values is at the very center,

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 for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea. As they grow, they become umbrella-shaped with a bell at the top and descending tentacles around the margin.

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 to me so I raised this bird one of my friends brought home a falconry book I tried to read it but I really didn't understand it because it was really in-depth but I would just look at the pictures try to put as much as I could together I knew that falconers put bells on their

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 of a meditator who meditated on compassion. It's something that is totally out of the bell curve. So, I've no time to go into all the different scientific results. Hopefully, they will come. But they found that -- this is after three and a half hours in an fMRI,

The habits of happiness...

 soon the main wall is going to start coming in for a free feed this could be the best place in the whole world to see them certainly up close all we have to do now is wait and I hope I think that's the dinner bell thankfully the wolves are listening

Braving a Thunderstorm...

 workers compensated for the tower’s minor tilt by making the next few floors taller on the southern side. But the weight of the extra masonry made that side sink even deeper. By the time they completed the seventh floor and bell chamber,

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 produce the different notes within it. And those notes finally emerge through the flared bell opening at the end. What started as a deep breath and a vibrating buzz on the lips has now been transformed into a bold and brassy tune.

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