Top 115 Whistling Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.
I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.
One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.
One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear
we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.
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 I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.
I believe in not whistling backstage and not saying the name of the Scottish play.
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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 me about how an album is like a fine meal.
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 young was now something I dreaded.
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
Some fans keep booing and whistling at me because I'm handsome, rich and a great player. They envy me.
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 plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
The measure of success was writing a song, recording it and for it being in the hit parade in England. Success was about the postman walking up the garden whistling my song. I wasn't trying to conquer the world.
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.
When hearing aids were first mentioned, I pictured myself as that old geezer at the back of the church with the whistling ear trumpet, but you can't see these Phonak hearing aids, and people don't realise you've got them in.
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.
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 it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.
The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
It is well-known that whistling is a great pick-me-up and promotes a feeling of happiness.
I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.
The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes;
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.
Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.
For decades, or at least for years, Republican politicians have been dog whistling about race. And then, when - they're shocked when Donald Trump starts barking.
Travelling is like a talent, like whistling or dancing. And some people have it.
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 it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
Oft in the silence of the night,
When the lonely moon rides high,
When wintry winds are whistling,
And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
In the quiet, dusky chamber,
By the flickering firelight,
Rising up between two sleepers,
Comes a spirit all in white.
My worst habit is whistling while I sleep.
It is impossible to be miserable and depressed whilst whistling.
Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
I have been whistling songs from childhood. I suppose it compensated for a lack of singing voice and satisfied my musical appetite.
When there's time for whistling, there's a lot of time on a show.
The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?
When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.
The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.
I do not know which to prefer -
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
If you go out for a jog you feel threatened because all of these men start following you, cat-calling and whistling at you.
I understand the fans, I respect them. I'll accept the whistling and booing. It's up to me to transform that all into applause.
I always say the Premier League is the best in the world, and I still feel it is an honour to be playing here, but I think English football suits my game. Football is more physical here; the ref is not whistling every foul.
Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!
I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.
