Chris Van Allsburg
Related JONATHAN SWIFT But I no longer hear the gushing sound of the wind or the rubbing noise of the leaves. It is really,... DEBALINA HALDAR GARTH NIX DOUGLAS JERROLD The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. MATSUO BASHO [My wife] told me one of the sweetest things one could hear-"I am not jealous. But I am truly sad fo... JOSEPH COTTEN MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA JOHN DONNE BRIAN KERNIGHAN Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to t... ANN BRASHARES He's probably 'doubtful,' at best 'questionable,' for Tennessee, and most likely to return for Minne... JACK DEL RIO TOM HANKS ERNEST HEMINGWAY KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN JOHN DONNE ELIAS CANETTI JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA HERMANN HESSE The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you.... LEANNA RENEE HIEBER J.M. BARRIE SUZANNE COLLINS Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old li... MICHAEL BEDARD It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, ... EYDIE GORME MUDDY WATERS If we don't, we could end up with Democrats in the Legislature and, Heaven forbid, a liberal like Ch... DAN PATRICK All Chris Bell has to do to win is get Democrats to vote for a Democrat. JASON STANFORD ANN PATCHETT Obama's speeches remind me of a 12 year old running for class president. He promises everyone all th... FRANK VIRGILIO CHARLES GODFREY LELAND I totally have this thing for Harry Styles from One Direction. But, like, I could totally date the r... CASSIE STEELE For some she came in a dream. For others in words as clear as a bell: it is time, I am here. She may... LUCY H. PEARCE TOBA BETA WALT DISNEY COMPANY BRIAN ANDREAS She could have rambled with all the fervor of a woman who had loved one entity for longer than most ... DARRELL DRAKE FRANK ROBINSON I cadged a complimentary green matchbook with a gold bird icon from the Bell canning jar. Later we'd... ED LYNSKEY BRYAN WHITE TORI AMOS One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll! MARCUS MAYO HERMANN HESSE RAYMOND CARVER We'll have the two best heavyweight fighters Saturday night _ me and Chris Byrd, ... When that bell ... JAMES TONEY KELLEY ARMSTRONG I can always hear the bell when it opens and closes. FARRAH FIEGENER He could hear people calling for help, but he couldn't even see them. DON PERITZ Look, Daddy: Teacher says that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. KAROLYN GRIMES CASSANDRA CLARE It's easier to have friends over for longer periods of time, because my parents can't hear and they'... LAUREN BOARDMAN It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l... LAURE96 JOHN GAY For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the ex... MAX VON LAUE YUVRAJ SINGH There's no name for it yet, but y'all will hear it though, ... Trust me; you'll know when you hear i... BENJI MADDEN There's no name for it yet, but y'all will hear it though, ... Trust me; you'll know when you hear i... BENJI LEVI MADDEN AESOP I wanted one for a long time, and finally at 18 years old, I did it because I could. COLLEEN COOPER JACK LONDON Send me a whisper, but one so dim that only my soul could hear. MARIANA FULGER I do not know…who turned me, your Grace.”S.C. PARRIS PHYLLIS DILLER PHYLLIS DILLER PHYLLIS DILLER UNKNOWN NATALIE COUGHLIN It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is ... JACK HANDY ANNA HELD ERNEST HEMINGWAY ERNEST HEMINGWAY ERNEST HEMINGWAY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose th... ROBERT LECKIE No bell will sound louder than the one of the salvation of our own hearts from the ring of love. SORIN CERIN It seemed like the only thing to do was to crank the volume of my tape of British music in protest. ... JOE PERNICE ANNE RICE ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an... PAUL HOFFMAN ALDEN EHRENREICH At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the... JAMES TOBIN It adds a little extra burden because I can't hear every bell. These ears are not as good as your Go... MARILYN CHANDLER No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is tha... KATE CAPSHAW Except she wasn’t Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her hu... BARBARA DELINSKY DEJAN STOJANOVIC URSULA K. LEGUIN I feel as if I could sing and hear music forever. Possibly that's a reason why I feel so lonely most... TOMMY POLO Swimming has changed drastically for Clay over the years. My hopes for Sarah are that she continues ... JANIE VANDISH For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached t... BIBLE ELIZABETH GASKELL VERA NAZARIAN It was as though all the most fundamentalist people of all three religions had descended upon the Ol... JARED BROCK Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one... VIRGINIA ALISON I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that'... MALCOLM WILSON SAMUEL BECKETT SARAH J. MAAS JANE AUSTEN BOB BEAUPREZ The best part for me about living in the dorms was I could promote my shows and stuff so easily beca... FRED RUSSELL There's things I listen for Nick, in his voice. I want to hear his mood. Even though he's 27 years o... BOB STAPLETON
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Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell... 
Ranna," she said aloud, touching the first, the smallest bell. Ranna the sleepbringer, the sweet, lo... 
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Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during th... 
Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as... 
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now i... 
If you pay attention to your ranking and comparison to others, you are competing with others.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, ... 
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And ... 
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was te... 
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s... 
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tin... 
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a... 
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through... 
No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o... 
Up rose the wild old winter-king,
And shook his beard of snow;
"I hear the first young hard-be... 
I believe there is no such thing as the end of days for this universe. However, for some races, it c... 
If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then... 
Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly... 
I don't need an explanation. I don't want to hear it, as a matter of fact. There's no excuse for tha... 
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Years go by will I still be waiting for somebody else to understand... sometimes I hear my voice and... 
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found... 
I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat th... 
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To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something ... 
One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear. 
I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do,... 
The Mischievous Dog
A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them w... 
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My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, ran... 
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be
silent, that you may hear. 
I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her... 
No one remembers it; none of my friends remember me having it, but I had really bad acne for, like, ... 
From one bell all the bells toll. 
To hear, one must be silent 
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The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.
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It would be like a dinner bell. Come one, come all. 
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs. 
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur... 
One must work and dare if one really wants to live. 
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say. 
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health. 
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori... 
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. 
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris... 
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. 