Whistle Quotes

175 Whistle quotes by 154 unique authors

Integrity, honesty, and honor may not give immediate rewards or gratification, and they can be life-threatening (for example, being a whistle-blower or turning state's evidence).… — Laura Schlessinger
Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like… — Milan Kundera
Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong. — Chris Matthews
And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, From a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. Now, you really must join me.… — Martha Grimes
Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to… — Armistead Maupin
In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic… — Charles Ives
I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance. — Roscoe Mitchell
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle… — Norman Corwin
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee. — William Christopher Handy
What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either. — Frank P. Ramsey
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. — Thomas Beecham
I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me… — David Leavitt
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith
But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves… — A. E. Housman
It will be the proudest moment of my life leading Liverpool out. I've dreamed of this day since I was a kid, kicking a ball… — Steven Gerrard
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than… — Anthony Trollope
Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And… — Shel Silverstein
For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air. — Winston Churchill
Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board. — Harley Earl
This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains much as it… — Norman Macbeth
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear… — Robert Bresson
You never get an angry man suddenly breaking into a whistle. — Karl Pilkington
It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle… — Arthur C. Clarke

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