Best Whistling Quotes
73 Whistling quotes by 72 unique authors
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In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are…
— Alan Coren
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A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling…
— David Cross
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
— Thomas Hood
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As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through…
— Mindy Kaling
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Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way…
— Theodore C. Sorensen
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After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was…
— Ethel Waters
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I hadn't been out to the hives before, so to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called 'bee yard etiquette'. She…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with…
— Bruce Chatwin
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at…
— Sara Teasdale
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When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!
— George W. Bush
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I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you…
— Christopher Paolini
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,” he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over…
— Rachel Vincent
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by…
— A. Lee Martinez
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Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed?…
— Toni Morrison
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When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the…
— Jean M. Auel
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All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots…
— Suzanne Collins
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Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know…
— Anne Rice
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And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and…
— Lauren Oliver
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Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear…
— Veronica Roth
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Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right…
— Ted Dekker
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