Whistle Quotes

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. (John Steinbeck)
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle. View quote
Tatum O'Neal
Christmas is here Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill. Little care we Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient. View quote
Willa Cather
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however, that though such people make a great noise the masses are not like them. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
They say that the Soviet delegates smile. That smile is genuine. It is not artificial. We wish to live in peace, tranquility. But if anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free. View quote
Charles Mackay
Heap on more wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. (Walter Scott)
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. View quote
Halldór Laxness
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
When I follow the finals of the European Cups, I look at all the aspects surrounding protocol, to get some ideas. I am interested in personalities, sponsors and the stands. But as soon as the whistle goes, it's all on the pitch. View quote
Michel Patini
I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names. View quote
Helen Oyeyemi
It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. View quote
Charles Tennyson Turner
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul. View quote
Charles Tennyson Turner
First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle. View quote
Evan Sayet
I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well. View quote
Mario Vazquez
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. View quote
Roscoe Mitchell
I can't whistle. My husband makes fun of me for that. (Tiffani Thiessen)
I'm as clean as a whistle. View quote
Tommy Chong
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases. View quote
Algernon Sydney
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly, Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing; Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly, And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king. View quote
Charles Dibdin
Goodbye, goodbye, old stones, the time-order is going, I have married my hands to perpetual agitation, I run, I run to the whistle of money. Money money money Water water water. View quote
Theodore Roethke
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