Top 100 Quotes About Whistle
#2. Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!
Armistead Maupin
#3. Any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard.
Stephen King
#4. I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.
Jacques Tati
#6. Come on sweetheart, wet your whistle, my little inanimate hussy." ~Steve
Lucian Bane
#7. The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo Eric Schmidt's view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.
Glenn Greenwald
#8. I have no idea what to wear."
"I suggest a whistle, just in case you end up in the trunk of his car.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#9. It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading.
Halldor Laxness
#10. Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!
Kate Winslet
#11. Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.
Sloane Crosley
#12. A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.
P. J. O'Rourke
#13. We sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.
Alice Hegan Rice
#14. Twilight whippoorwill ... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness
Matsuo Basho
#15. My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.
Lara Stone
#16. You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.
Peter Shilton
#17. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
Anne Frank
#18. I am not your dog that you whistle for; I'm not a stray animal you call over, and I am not, I never have been, nor will I ever be, your "baby"!
Joy Jennings
#19. I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight
No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
Joanna Newsom
#20. When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best ...
And ... always look on the bright side of life ...
Always look on the light side of life.
Graham Chapman
#21. What the fuck are you laughing at, Godfrey?" Johnson moved away from Day.
"You, daddy's boy."
"Fuck you. I know Day is just showing off for you." Johnson turned back to look at Day. "I'll be sure to catch you when you're alone."
"I'll be sure to have my rape whistle," Day retorted.
A.E. Via
#22. When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.
Samuel R. Delany
#23. Fang let out a low whistle. "Anyone know that Amazons could ride a giant bird?"
Ethon gave him a duh stare. "Those of us who fought them, yeah, we know. How you think they keep kicking our asses?"
"Cause you're pansies. Everyone knows that.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
Oliver Goldsmith
#25. 'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.
Geraldine Brooks
#26. I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
Steve-O
#27. The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.
Horace Silver
#28. It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.
Joseph O'Neill
#29. I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.
Helen Oyeyemi
#30. Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.
Chris Matthews
#31. Young Sam looked solemn for a moment and then said, I think I'll let Mr. Whistle do the being scared and then it won't bother me.
Terry Pratchett
#32. The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around.
Karen Russell
#33. When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.
Byron White
#34. His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
Alice Walker
#35. We eagles sing no soothing songs.
Our throats can only whistle.
Instead, we hunt them down,
take them from others.
Dana Walrath
#36. She can paint herself red and hang on the wall and whistle, I don't care
William Gaddis
#37. I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.
John James Ingalls
#38. It's as if Tempi brought home a dog that can whistle. The fact that you are out of tune stands quite beside the point." Vashet
Patrick Rothfuss
#39. It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard Bernstein
#40. How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.
James Grahame
#41. Whistle a birdcall. The mockingjay cocks its head and whistles the call right back at me. Then, to my surprise, Pollux whistles a few notes of his own. The bird answers him immediately.
Suzanne Collins
#42. I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.
Mario Vazquez
#43. I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.
Ji-li Jiang
#44. Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.
Glenn Greenwald
#45. That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
D.H. Lawrence
#46. Everything seems different at night. Defined. Beyond the window, the world is full of shadows, all pressed together in harsh relief, somehow sharper than they ever were in daylight.
Sounds seem sharper,too, at night. A whistle. A crack. A child's whisper.
Victoria Schwab
#47. This is not an easy problem. For every useful whistle-blower there are probably many unbalanced idiots, or malicious troublemakers.
Chester Porter
#48. America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
Oscar Wilde
#50. Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
Pankaj Mishra
#51. Teach me to sing and recite,
To whistle and jingle and strum.
Teach me to color and paint,
To sculpt and weave and create.
Teach me to sway and dance,
To tap and leap and twirl.
Teach me to laugh and giggle,
To tickle and play and pretend.
Teach me that life is beautiful.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
Lincoln Steffens
#53. Lion emits a low whistle as he spots Bo entering his fifth-period Journalism class. 'What happened to your face?'
Bo touches it tenderly and smiles. 'Nothing ...
'This wasn't your Dad.'
Bo smiles again. 'No. My dad leaves bruises on the inside.
Chris Crutcher
#54. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
Halford Luccock
#55. The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
M.C. Beaton
#56. waif. They would hear his reedy voice, the one he'd had in the war. He swallowed, knew that all he had for a voice box was a little whistle cut from a willow switch. Worse - he had nothing to say. The crowd
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#57. Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
Boris Pasternak
#58. It's always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it's always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it's sort of all business on the field.
Heather O'Reilly
#59. What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.
Frank P. Ramsey
#60. My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man
Ashley Cole
#61. No, thanks. If I start wearing heels, boys will whistle at me when I walk by.
Dia Reeves
#62. You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
Joe Sakic
#63. You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle.
Karl Pilkington
#65. I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.
Robert Englund
#66. Eventually he kicked the bristles and gave a long intake of breath, a sort of reverse whistle, which is the secret sign of craftsmen across the universe and means that something expensive is about to happen.
Terry Pratchett
#67. How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'
Craig Brown
#69. First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.
Evan Sayet
#71. I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.
Roscoe Mitchell
#72. Never whistle for the wind unless you want it to blow,
Stephen King
#73. Elvis, stop dat! You know it is taboo to whistle at night. You will attract a spirit.
Chris Abani
#74. You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
Enoch Powell
#75. Hearing it, I wonder how I could have ever thought that the birdcall I heard earlier sounded anything like the Officer's whistle.
Ally Condie
#76. When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#77. Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.
Michael Morpurgo
#78. Wow!" Fin let out a sharp whistle. "You look hot, Dez. You can raid my tomb whenever you'd like.
Jus Accardo
#79. I'm sure Spurs will get another opportunity, hopefully before the final whistle.
Steve Claridge
#80. I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.
Feist
#81. For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.
Winston Churchill
#82. And the spectators must not be allowed to see too much. President Obama has set new standards in safeguarding this principle. He has, in fact, punished more whistle-blowers than all previous presidents combined, a real achievement for an administration that came to office promising transparency.
Noam Chomsky
#83. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#84. The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?
Abe Ajay
#85. I am the penny whistle of American literature.
Nelson Algren
#86. I would not have my sheep branded with any other mark than my own, or follow the whistle of a strange shepherd.
Elizabeth I
#87. Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.
Jim Mitchell
#88. I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'
Steve Sabol
#89. A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Juvenal
#90. Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
Alan Green
#91. I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Tatum O'Neal
#92. I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
Alan Lewis
#93. There was a bird whistle as Polly neared the hiding place. She identified this one as the sound of the Very Bad Bird Impersonator ...
Terry Pratchett
#94. A whistle in the dark is still a whistle.
Gideon Levy
#95. Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
Steve Spurrier
#96. State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.
Bill Dedman
#97. Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
Clint Eastwood
#98. I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle, pull you from the court and put you on the bench and talk to you before I would put you back in.
John Wooden
#99. When the whistle blows, I'm completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.
Tim Howard
#100. Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.
Charles Mackay
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