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.

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.

Boris Pasternak

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marilyn Monroe

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

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.

Halldór Laxness

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

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.

Michel Patini

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

Helen Oyeyemi

It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.

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.

Charles Tennyson Turner

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

Evan Sayet

I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.

Mario Vazquez

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell

I can't whistle. My husband makes fun of me for that. (Tiffani Thiessen)

I'm as clean as a whistle.

Tommy Chong

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

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.

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.

Theodore Roethke

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