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Quotes About Horn

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.
~ Tony Fadell
A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run.
~ Joseph Conrad
It is not known why motorists, who sing the joys of the open road, spend so much petrol every week-end grinding their way to Southend and Brighton and Margate, in the stench of each other's exhausts, one hand on the horn and one foot on the brake, their eyes starting from their orbits in the nerve-racking search for cops, corners, blind turnings, and cross-road suicides.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed.Have I not seen the loveliest woman bornOut of the mouth of Plenty's horn,Because of her opinionated mindBarter that horn and every goodBy quiet natures understoodFor an old bellows full of angry wind?
~ William Butler Yeats
And God stands winding His lonely horn,And time and the world are ever in flight.
~ William Butler Yeats
Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-ey'd bat,With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,Or where the beetle windsHis small but sullen horn.
~ William Collins
The system is a drill, or set of steps, that is accomplished in sequence when approaching any hazard: 1. Select course 2. Look behind, signal, adjust speed 3. Change gear 4. Look behind again and signal again 5. Use your horn 6. Look behind again 7. Maneuver and accelerate
~ David L. Hough
And then a low and powerful sound rumbles thru the sky, like some giant, deep horn. A sound God would make when he wanted yer attenshun.
~ Patrick Ness
I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.
~ George Jones
The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.
~ Henry Fielding
God! how sad is the sound of the horn deep in the woods!
~ Alfred de Vigny
The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
~ Dara Horn
She glanced at the minotaur horn in my hands, then back at me. I imagined she was going to say, You killed a minotaur! or Wow, you're so awesome! or something like that. Instead she said, You drool when you sleep.
~ Rick Riordan
The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.
~ William Shakespeare
The waves thus produced have become legendary among seafaring men. They are called Cape Horn Rollers
~ Alfred Lansing
Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn:Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle horn.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Smith] blew a warning blast of his town horn, twisted the wheel and slewed the bus into the side of the street. His intentions were unmistakable and the motorcycle patrol's decision to elect for discretion in lieu of suicidal valour was as immediate as it was automatic. They frantically abandoned their machines and flung themselves for their lives up the steps of Zum Wilden Hirsch.
~ Alistair MacLean
Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor's leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.
~ Epictetus
The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary.
~ An English Lord Chief Justice
I am Birgitte Silverbow, Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!
~ Robert Jordan
Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin. "The grave is no bar to my call." "The Horn of Valere?
~ Robert Jordan
Unicorns are man-eating monsters. They don't have wings, they aren't lavender or sparkly, and you could never catch one to ride without its goring you through the sternum. And even if it somehow managed to miss your major arteries-and it never misses-you'd still die from the deadly poison in its horn.
~ Diana Peterfreund
When a passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.
~ Donald J. Sobol
The horn of Hemdall sounds as he stands facing his enemies on the rainbow-coloured arch of Bifrost.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski