Whirr Quotes

#1. There was a toy gyroscope, wound with string, ready to whirr and balance itself.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Somewhere in the distance, the synchronic circles of our pasts had tripped a domino, and the steady whirr had grown till it now drowned with the roar of contingency

Craig Johnson

#4. Look at all that rubbish," she said, watching the electric van slowly whirr from bin to bin, little men in gloves removing it all.
"They're taking it away," I said.
"Where to?" she said. "It just gets moved around dearie, that's all.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. There was only the sound of the July-flies, which seems to be inside your head like it is the grind and whirr of the springs and cogs which are you and which will not stop no matter what you say until they are good and ready.

Robert Penn Warren

#6. When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam ... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

Jeff Ross

#7. Neurons that fire together wire together.

Steven Kotler

#8. Let us remember that those who are made partakers of the divine nature will manifest their high and holy relationship in their intercourse with others, and make it evident by their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380. After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went ... up.

Steven D. Levitt

#10. One tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

Fay Weldon

#11. I think Pope Francis is a good shepherd and has great experience in following people in joyful, but also distressing situations and he knows what he is speaking about when he discusses how to accompany families in their lives toward joy and love.

Christoph Schonborn

#12. Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

Nancy Pelosi

#13. I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

Burton Silverman

#14. And the Angelfucker makes his move.

Sylvain Reynard

#15. Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

Dave Brubeck

#16. As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will be far more attractive, even irresistible. You can use your smiling loveliness to bless those you love and all you meet, and spread great joy.

James E. Faust

#17. Oh, yes," said Mother, "you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here.

Russell Hoban

#18. Go after what you want, but enjoy the trip.

Robert Anthony

#19. Academics are not intellectuals; they are not curious, they build their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stay securely in them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#20. The President said that Gold told him to invade Iraq. You see that's what happens when you mix New Testament and Old Milwaukee.

Bill Maher