Quotes About Murmurs

There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

There would be whispers. There were always whispers. And whispers, if left unchecked, could quickly grow into roars.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

Reading 'The New Yorker' - I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read 'Shouts and Murmurs.' Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.

A bottle of beer mysteriously tips itself over and pours all over her head. Now she looks like a drowned rat. "It does have perks," I agree. "Little testy tonight?" "That woman's boobs do not belong in your face." "It's not as if I can see yours at the moment." "Well, you're damn well going to feel them. Soon." "One hopes," he murmurs.

susurrations

She'd heard there were

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

In my head I hear a whisper, or rather the memory of a whisper. The familiar voice is soft, and it warms me from the inside out as it murmurs a name: Charlotte.

They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves.

All at once, the voices began: some in slurred murmurs, some crying out loudly upon the Lord, others weeping and beating their breasts. At that time, you see, we all of us believed that God listened to such prayers.

But none speaks with a single voice. None with a voice free from the old vibrations. Always I hear corrupt murmurs; the chink of gold and metal. Mad music...

Then will I lay down my head in the lap of death. Hushed will be all my murmurs in the sleep of the grave.

Me dad used to say a strange dog would allus get a cow up." There were murmurs of assent from the assembled farmers and immediate offers of dogs. I tried to point out that one would be enough but my authority had dwindled and anyway everybody seemed anxious to demonstrate their dogs' cow-raising potential. There

The house continues to call out from parts unseen, aches and hiccups and wheezes, a centuries-old creature drawing long, labored breaths. When

The cardiovascular system is in a hyperdynamic state during pregnancy. Normal physical findings on cardiovascular examination include an increased second heart sound split with inspiration, distended neck veins, and low-grade systolic ejection murmurs, which are presumably associated with increased blood flow across the aortic and pulmonic valves.

The old man moaned and maundered, murmured, muttered, mumbled odds of this and ends of that, bits and pieces, shreds and edges, full of ifs and whens and theres and thens, amounting in the end and all to six times less than nothing.

And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.

Do you know where it is—the church?" More murmurs, the students conferring, a shaking of heads: no one had a clue. "So this is something we have to do!" I said, and they laughed.

Tell me, why do you think I do this?" The king sounds curious. "Out of lust? Is that what you think?" Kill a cardinal? Divide your country? Split the church? 'Seems extravagant,' Chapuys murmurs.

I listened to the murmurs within his silence. Construction can be put on silence.

tacito mala vota susiro concipimus" -- Lucan v 94 With silent whisperings we, For ill things supplicants be.