Whistle Quotes - page 3

I am the penny whistle of American literature. (Nelson Algren)
Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out. View quote
Chuck Berry
Trump's lack of knowledge or experience or solutions would be bad enough. But what he's doing here is more sinister. Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of President he'd be. View quote
Hillary Clinton
O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad: Tho' father and mither and a' should gae mad. View quote
Robert Burns
He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater. View quote
Oscar Levant
I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. View quote
Eartha Kitt
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
You go outside, light your pipe, whistle a tune and just paint what you come across. (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018) View quote
Anton Mauve
If I were a cadet in the Agulhas Negras Military Academy and saw you on the street I would whistle at you. View quote
Jair Bolsonaro
I sit alone in the secluded bamboo grove and play the zither and whistle along. In the deep forest no one knows, the bright moon comes to shine on me. (Wang Wei)
I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers. View quote
Robert Englund
I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time. View quote
Diablo Cody
The pipe-call, mentioned by Burton, is noticed under a different denomination by Chaucer; "Lo," says he, "the birde is begyled with the merry voice of the foulers' whistle, when it is closed in your nette," --alluding to the deceptive art of the bird-catchers in his time. View quote
Joseph Strutt
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking. View quote
Alan Lewis
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. View quote
Byron Dorgan
The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. View quote
Charles J. Shields
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have. View quote
Cassandra Wilson
If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body. View quote
Fuzzy Zoeller
We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating. View quote
G. Richard Wagoner, Jr.
You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating. (Joe Sakic)
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command. View quote
Lincoln Steffens
Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night. View quote
Jim Mitchell
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power. View quote
Sloane Crosley
Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game. View quote
Steve Spurrier
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