Squeaking Quotes

#1. Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it
once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the

Lewis Carroll

#2. Antony shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
I' th' posture of a whore.

William Shakespeare

#3. She spent the rest of the way home despising New York: anonymity, in virtuous terror; and the squeaking drainpipe, all-night light, ceaseless footfall, subway corridor, numbered door (3C).
('Master Misery')

Truman Capote

#4. Go into the building, search out the Returned who lives in it, and run around in circles squeaking as loudly as you can. Don't let anybody catch you. Oh, and destroy as much furniture as you can.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm just making it run without squeaking.

Sunny Anderson, TV Chef

Lexi Dare

#6. Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

Neil Gaiman

#7. I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

#8. He would rock back and forth in his chair, making sure it squeaked ominously. He always found a chair that squeaked ominously. He was so good at squeaking ominously that he managed to make year-six teacher number two burst into tears.

Adrienne Kress

#9. The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.

Sylvia Plath

#10. The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

Victor Gold

#11. With a bad reed, my oboe could be a beastly instrument honking and squeaking as if it had a mind of its own. When my reeds were working, though, I learned that making a sound spoke my emotions more directly than my own voice.

Blair Tindall

#12. 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

#13. Understand." Allie said, "Well, I don't know that we would need to go that far." He relaxed his grip on the phone. The two young girls just behind him could not stop laughing. They kept dissolving in cascades of giggles, sputtering and squeaking. What did girls that age find so

Anne Tyler

#14. When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.

James Lafferty

#15. Rubber-soled shoes squeaking on the shiny Marmoleum.

Jojo Moyes

#16. This is Sumarbrander, the Sword of Summer... and it is about to kick your collective butts."
"Thank you," said the sword.
Sam made a squeaking noise.

Rick Riordan

#17. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.

Douglas Adams

#18. Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage to mark which is which ...

D.H. Lawrence

#19. Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. Would it help if I told you I am a little rusty when it comes to having a relationship?"
"A little? They can hear your hinges squeaking all the way on Mars," she said irreverently.

Jacquelyn Frank

#21. Now what on earth or under it has happened?" said Thorin. "Certainly not the dragon, or he would not go on squeaking.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. Swiveling in his old wooden chair, the legs squeaking as if startled by the sudden movement, he glanced at the clock on the wall behind him and surveyed the time imprisoned behind its yellowed and crazed plastic dome.

Hugh Howey

#23. [Eric] 'So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself?'

[Sookie] 'Yes,' I said, almost squeaking in my anxiety. In for a penny, in for a pound. 'And... do you think you could pretend to be gay?

Charlaine Harris

#24. A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#25. This Boston voice squeaking out its song. The yellow light goes out the window on the stubs of windy grass and black rocks. And down the wet steps by gorse stumps and rusty heather to the high water mark and diving pool. Where the seaweeds rise and fall at night in Balscaddoon Bay.

J.P. Donleavy

#26. The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the same thing happens - everyone who knows me knows that when I start squeaking, I've started lying.

Aleksandar Hemon

#28. Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.

Bob Saget

#30. It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.

Liya Kebede

#31. I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

Isla Fisher

#32. I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Margaret Atwood

#33. The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have ... ," I wouldn't be here today.

Debbi Fields

#34. I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

Charles Spurgeon

#35. He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Ben Jonson

#36. It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers ...

Tom Brokaw

#37. You're not one to take lightly, to love of for an evening and leave of a dawn.

Janet Morris

#38. I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively, fiercely. I was a brave girl. I was a fit fox.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

Aspen Matis