Top 63 Shrieking Quotes

#1. In a 24/7 news cycle, with all the shrieking, howling voices and rapid-response and instant spinning and Soviet-style disinformation-mongering, a good idea has a shelf life of about, um, six seconds.

Christopher Buckley

Shrieking Quotes #21090
#2. As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide, which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract.

Edgar Allan Poe

Shrieking Quotes #41474
#3. His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.Flames burst forth from his skull like a corolla,shrieking like voices: -Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!

James Joyce

Shrieking Quotes #66016
#4. I hear my own voice shrieking out its bewilderment at finding so many imperfections within a world of limitless potential.

Hope Jahren

Shrieking Quotes #100812
#5. Then, Holden, the little Fang gang kid, came out of nowhere with an apparent death wish. He raced directly toward the maniac with the gun shrieking something that sounded like I am Starfishhh!

James Patterson

Shrieking Quotes #119364
#6. I wasn't moaning your name. I was shrieking in alarm." "That was the sexiest throaty shrieking I've ever heard.

Ilona Andrews

Shrieking Quotes #180467
#7. It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

Lauren Oliver

Shrieking Quotes #223113
#8. Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.

Robertson Davies

Shrieking Quotes #223844
#9. Good Lord, I thought, squinting at the bright glare of a late-July morning. No wonder I slept through this. It was noisy with shrieking birds, and already hot.

Kim Harrison

Shrieking Quotes #234374
#10. Turns out he does run," Nick drawled. "Given an incentive. And he wouldn't be so out of breath if he hadn't kept shrieking."
"That was not a shriek," Jamie said with dignity. "It was a husky masculine cry of terror.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Shrieking Quotes #245863
#11. Meanwhile, Furious George continued his noisy tantrum. Long arms flailing wildly, massive teeth exposed, the angry creature charged out into the water, splashing and shrieking.

Brian Harmon

Shrieking Quotes #271495
#12. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

Shrieking Quotes #350982
#13. But unlike anyone else," Ryn adds, "if you upset the Seelie Queen, she might start shrieking, 'Off with their heads!'." The four of us stare at him. He stares back. "What? It's . . . from a book. Never mind.

Rachel Morgan

Shrieking Quotes #386474
#14. Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking ...

J.K. Rowling

Shrieking Quotes #391890
#15. Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

J.K. Rowling

Shrieking Quotes #393249
#16. As a child, growing up in Hampstead, North London, I was shockingly fair-skinned. Holidays involved me spending the second and third day face-down on a bed, shrieking should anyone touch my blistered skin.

Jane Green

Shrieking Quotes #439560
#17. As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and Papa's death and I wished with all my heart that she could understand how it felt to be us that night - how it felt to be eighteen and unbeaten, eighteen and alive.

Eva Rice

Shrieking Quotes #509968
#18. But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Shrieking Quotes #548224
#19. A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey.

Raymond E. Feist

Shrieking Quotes #575727
#20. AHA!" screamed a voice from overhead ... Peeves was hanging upside down from a chandelier and grinning maliciously at them.
"Potty asked Loony to go to the party! Potty lurves Loony! Potty luuuuurves Looooooony!"
And he zoomed away, cackling and shrieking, "Potty loves Loony!

J.K. Rowling

Shrieking Quotes #586959
#21. She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, "I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home.

Karen Russell

Shrieking Quotes #654965
#22. Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.

Graham Greene

Shrieking Quotes #683243
#23. The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several hundred wildcats and wolves being roasted slowly alive together would not have compared with it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Shrieking Quotes #712004
#24. As night fell, the prehistoric landscape came alive with sound: howling and shrieking, screaming, calling and barking. "I've suddenly realized why all of these animals died out," Scathach

Michael Scott

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#25. The yells and yammering, croaking, jibbering and jabbering; howls, growls and curses; shrieking and skriking, that followed were beyond description.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Shrieking Quotes #790771
#26. The torturer was wheeling around the room, shrieking, holding his impaled hand, which had a pen sticking out of it. The guard by the door was in paroxysms of laughter. Frey had crumpled the confession into a ball and was trying to get it into his mouth to eat it, but couldn't quote reach.

Chris Wooding

Shrieking Quotes #879858
#27. When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

John Ruskin

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#28. I had a reputation for scary smiles that sent children shrieking away. Evil clowns had nothing on me.

Ann Charles

Shrieking Quotes #890216
#29. The infected give chase and I won't look back, can't. Hearing them is enough, a cacophony of breathless shrieking that all means one thing: mine, mine, mine.

Courtney Summers

Shrieking Quotes #934285
#30. I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

Anne Michaels

Shrieking Quotes #1013024
#31. Making female noises, shrieking and squeaking and being shrill, all those things that annoy people with longer vocal cords. Another case where the length of organs seems to be so important to men.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Shrieking Quotes #1039821
#32. hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.

Martha N. Beck

Shrieking Quotes #1066792
#33. They make a fuss about Hogsmeade, but I assure you, Harry, it's not all it's cracked up to be. All right, the sweetshop's rather good, and Zonko's Joke Shop's frankly dangerous, and yes, the Shrieking Shack is always worth a visit, but really, Harry, apart from that, you're not missing anything.

J.K. Rowling

Shrieking Quotes #1131960
#34. Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Shrieking Quotes #1146325
#35. It's a miracle the king managed to resist executing you until yesterday." "Tell me he's in a rage the likes of which have never been seen before." "If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear him shrieking from the palace.

Sarah J. Maas

Shrieking Quotes #1148898
#36. The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

Joni Mitchell

Shrieking Quotes #1150567
#37. It was a Friday night, two in the morning, and my two best friends were shrieking

Tijan

Shrieking Quotes #1150812
#38. With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling teakettle filled with hormones shrieking on a stove.

Roland Merullo

Shrieking Quotes #1184903
#39. It is the literal, unvarnished truth, that the crack of the lash, and the shrieking of the slaves, can be heard from dark till bed time, on Epps' plantation, any day almost during the entire period of the cotton-picking season.

Solomon Northup

Shrieking Quotes #1230155
#40. If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

Ayelet Waldman

Shrieking Quotes #1304933
#41. Ayden and I clapped our hands over our ears when the shrieking started.
"Yes. I can see that you're enthused," Jayden tried to speak over the girls' squealing, "but you need - "
Danica snatched the backstage passes from Jayden. "No way!"
"Uh, yes. Way?" Jayden said.

A&E Kirk

Shrieking Quotes #1314799
#42. We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.

Leigh Hunt

Shrieking Quotes #1319747
#43. Unless you see yourself standing there with the shrieking crowd, full of hostility and hatred for the holy and innocent Lamb of God, you don't really understand the nature and depth of your sin or the necessity of the cross.

C.J. Mahaney

Shrieking Quotes #1390299
#44. When you are in a creative or appreciative zone, you literally have no access to your inner lizard, to that fear-based, non creative, shrieking little beasty who's so afraid you're going to be a bag lady.

Martha Beck

Shrieking Quotes #1390805
#45. And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him.

Ray Bradbury

Shrieking Quotes #1452627
#46. ...but each time my phone buzzed with a text from her my shrieking heart catapulted itself out of my body, leaving behind a gory trail of blood as it sprinted down the hallway and out the front door.

Kristen Mae

Shrieking Quotes #1511813
#47. The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

Nancy Astor

Shrieking Quotes #1539668
#48. And the boys were behind me, a tide-wall of laughter and yelling, hugging my legs, tripping and grabbing, leaping, spinning, stumbling, roaring, shrieking and the boys shouted I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU and their voice was the life and song of their mother. Unfinished. Beautiful. Everything.

Max Porter

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#49. Instead of being wakened to the sound of birdsong, like princesses in books, I was wakened to the sound of Rommel shrieking as Fat Louie beat him senseless for getting into his bowl of Fancy Feast.

Meg Cabot

Shrieking Quotes #1563379
#50. The music has turned into a distant hysterical pounding and shrieking, like someone has a tiny Rihanna locked in a box.

Tana French

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#51. I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

Linda Ronstadt

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#52. After ... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have closed their doors The pigs have no one to arrest except themselves The drugs no longer have an effect When it's all over All I'll remember is you

Henry Rollins

Shrieking Quotes #1595463
#53. Pulitzer was the first to cram a paper with pictures and games under shrieking headlines. He offered eight packed pages of thrilling content for only two cents.

Al Roker

Shrieking Quotes #1613486
#54. Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.

Michael Azerrad

Shrieking Quotes #1667755
#55. When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

Doug Stanhope

Shrieking Quotes #1739313
#56. Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.

Rachel Sklar

Shrieking Quotes #1790348
#57. I could stand in the middle of Front Street shrieking like a banshee and nobody would notice me. You don't need magic to be invisible in a town like this. Being poor works just the same. So stand behind me and think quiet thoughts.

C.M. Hayden

Shrieking Quotes #1791137
#58. I wanted you to stop." "I was encouraged by you breathlessly moaning my name." I spun on my foot. "I wasn't moaning your name. I was shrieking in alarm." "That was the sexiest throaty shrieking I've ever heard." "You need to get out more.

Ilona Andrews

Shrieking Quotes #1802529
#59. the Spartan right fall upon the defenders of Antirhion, not in frenzied shrieking rage, lip-curled and fang-bared, but predator-like, cold-blooded, applying the steel with the wordless cohesion of the killing pack and the homicidal efficiency of the hunt.

Steven Pressfield

Shrieking Quotes #1839129
#60. In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#61. Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

Dave Barry

Shrieking Quotes #1860695
#62. It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Shrieking Quotes #1865696
#63. The world vanished inside a shrieking, whirling ochre haze. Stones and gravel pelted them, drawing flinches from the stallion and grunts of pain from Kalam.

Steven Erikson

Shrieking Quotes #1871256

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