
Top 33 Whirring Quotes
#1. The Ozmists around him went iridescent emerald, like light striking a thousand whirring beetles in flight, gold and emerald, emerald and gold, the colors of Lurlinemas, the colors of pine polen in champagne sunlight.
Gregory Maguire
#2. To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.
Lemony Snicket
#3. I need to narrow things down, start pruning back. Until then, I'm a whirring zoetrope of half-thoughts and worries.
Craig Silvey
#5. Here lies resting, out of breath,
Out of turns, Elizabeth
Whose quicksilver toes not quite
Cleared the whirring edge of night.
X.J. Kennedy
#6. He was drifting, I could hear it in his voice. He always fell asleep as easily as some great lazing cat, he only had to close his eyes and moments later he'd be gone, while my own mind kept on whirring round with scattered thoughts and images.
Susanna Kearsley
#7. That swirling devil's clot, that black maelstrom of cylindrical majesty. It is a swirling gray spider egg unspooling, filled with rotten teeth. A biblical monster, God's vengeance. Whirring
Noah Hawley
#8. I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.
Timbaland
#9. Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.
David Gordon Green
#10. Love is all about sacrifices - big and small ones. It's only when you know how much you could give up for somebody that you know what true love really is." The whirring fan spun above them,
Karen White
#11. Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.
Ross Macdonald
#12. Neither the secret whirring song of the stars nor the sonorous canticles of the earth knew the language that sprang up in the space between us. It was a dialect of heartbeats, strung together with the lilt of long suffering and the incandescent hope of an infinite future.
Roshani Chokshi
#13. As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
Ross Macdonald
#14. I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mother's curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside I was screaming.
Kendall Kulper
#15. Everything around me goes suddenly silent, even the cicadas in the trees pausing in their incessant whirring, momentarily stunned into stillness. For a long moment I hear nothing at all, but stand frozen in a silent grey world.
Kate Lattey
#16. See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs,
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings;
Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound,
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
Alexander Pope
#17. Well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.
Ellen Wittlinger
#18. On the opposite bank, a hummingbird, whirring it's invisible wings, ate the heart of a giant tiger lily.
Truman Capote
#19. Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family's edges
Anne Tyler
#20. It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.
Daniel H. Wilson
#21. Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
Jimmy Carter
#22. I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
David R. Ellis
#23. To understand the whole operation of one's own mind requires a great deal of insight, a great deal of inquiry without condemnation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#24. Being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also due to the impossibility of experiencing of re-experiencing anything through language), Bataille still expresses it in words. (Mishima on Bataille)
Georges Bataille
#25. A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.
Moby
#26. I've broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That's how it works. You don't buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor's music?
Hugh Jackman
#27. See? The moment you quit chasing him, that's when he wants you. He looks jealous. He thinks he's been replaced.
Amy Harmon
#28. I used to have six left feet. Now I only have one and a half left feet.
Jesse McCartney
#29. In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.
Matthew Henry
#30. My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.
Jeff Lindsay
#31. These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.
Sarah Palin
#32. I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P.L. Travers
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