Shrill Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh.… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of… — M.F.K. Fisher
We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs.… — Cynthia Heimel
If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard… — Al Gore
I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. — Renee Vivien
Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus… — David Jeremiah
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but… — Flora Thompson
There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private — Jesmyn Ward
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of… — Krista Tippett
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well… — Neil MacGregor
The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but… — Julie Kagawa
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But… — James Joyce
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes,… — Carol Birch
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor
Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew… — Gary North
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. — Edmund Spenser
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. — Al Gore
Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration… — Eliot Spitzer
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses… — Bertolt Brecht
Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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