Screech Quotes

#1. If you're not careful, the viola can make the most awful screech,

Gayle Forman

#2. Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.'
'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

Felix Salten

#3. She reached back with remarkable speed and, raising the weapons above her head, slid them out to the sides. The swords made a high-pitch metallic screech when their surfaces glided against each other

A.O. Peart

#4. Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!

Alfred Austin

#5. The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#6. I soon learned that humans can screech even louder than monkeys.

Katherine Applegate

#7. The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain. ... Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort of harmony: it's the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

Werner Herzog

#8. Things I will never like: 1. Drying off with a cold, damp towel. 2. The feeling of seaweed wrapping around my legs. 3. Anything that was popular in the 70's. 4. Licorice, yam, or raisins. 5. That high-pitched screech that babies make. 6. Writhing maggots.

Bill Watterson

#9. Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

Keith Crown

#10. Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

Faith Hunter

#11. I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

Tina Weymouth

#12. I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

John Colton

#13. This particular ogre, who went by the name Skoorn, was (by ogreish standards) exceedingly clever, and he had developed a taste for what ogres call "screech melons.

Robert Kroese

#14. The world could screech to a halt on its axis and the dock could be swept out to sea in an apocalyptic current, and we wouldn't notice. Our universes have condensed into each other.

Kirsten Hubbard

#15. Her voice was a throaty screech, without melody, as false as her eyebrows and as sharp as her nails. (The King in Yellow)

Raymond Chandler

#16. That same piercing screech in her voice every time at the hospital. "Do something!" When I slit my wrists. "Help her!" The last time too. "Somebody help her. Help us!" You're helpless, both of you. All of us.

Julie Anne Peters

#17. When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

George Clooney

#18. I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Plutarch

#20. The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

John Steinbeck

#21. And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own resilience is our only weapon against the cynical, the weak, those who talk of honor but do not practice the word they so loudly and vigorously screech.

Alexandra Silber

#22. A piercing screech from above caught my attention. However, it was the arm landing beside me with teeth marks that let me know what was going on.
"Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?"
- Faith, Witch Devotions

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#23. Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.

William Shakespeare

#24. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.

Kev Heritage

#25. He's painting your living room as a thank you."
"Huh. My decorator might screech, but I'm okay with that."
"Your decorator? Seriously? How did you not know you were gay?

Dani Alexander

#26. One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

Dennis Miller

#27. So of course that was the moment my motherboard decided to do a short internal scan, throw up its hands, and screech, "Dear Lawd, a VAMPIRE has taken mah blood!" and initiate a general shutdown.

Jennifer Rardin

#28. metal on metal screech outside. It sounded

Moana Lee

#29. All night I carpenter

A space for the thing I am given,
A love

Of two wet eyes and a screech.
White spit

Of indifference!
The dark fruits revolve and fall.

The glass cracks across,
The image

Flees and aborts like dropped mercury

Sylvia Plath

#30. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#31. When it made the distinctive screech that only an old country screen door could make, another layer of lead came off his chest. That was a sound of home. Of history and memory and comfort.

Susan Fanetti

#32. In the 1980s I thrilled to the static and screech that modems made when they opened for you the weirdly magical realm of online services and bulletin boards,

Walter Isaacson

#33. Rob says, just before a piercing screech crashes through the phone and I jerk it away from my ear like I've been slapped. Either that's a banshee coming to take my soul to the underworld, or it's Rob's daughter, Kinzie.

C.M. Stunich

#34. I would never kiss you!" The siren's screech brought me back to the Everneath, and I drew away from Cole.
He had a devilish grin on his face, and he turned toward the siren. "I know. But the real Nik would - if it was to save my life." He looked back at me. "Hey, Nik.

Brodi Ashton

#35. The only way to prepare for a trip like this, I felt, was to dress up like human peacocks and get crazy, then screech off across the desert and cover the story.

Hunter S. Thompson

#36. Lex's jaw dropped. She started to object, but the look Zara shot her could have silenced a pack of screech monkeys.

Gina Damico

#37. Somebody actually tattooed my face on his arm. In a couple years, that will be the equivalent of having a Screech tattoo.

Chris Jericho

#38. Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.

Cassandra Clare

#39. There were cries, screech , it weep.
The rest weep from we, who emerge.
There was one wall of weeping. And we have parted with you.

Erin Moure

#40. Thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.

Ann M. Martin

#41. You'll know they've spotted us when they screech," Skulduggery told her. The creatures screeched.

Derek Landy

#42. We're blind moles. Creeping through the soil, feeling with our snoots. We know nothing. I perceived this . . . now I don't know where to go. Screech with fear, only. Run away.

Philip K. Dick

#43. His skin was gray and riddled with bloody sores. His mouth, which still dripped with Charlie's blood, twisted into a grimace and he let out an unearthly screech. "Scott?!" I screamed as his teeth tore into my skin.

Kristen Middleton

#44. Mourning Doves have the same misfortune that pigs have, the misfortune of being delicious.

Alan W. Powers