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Quotes About Screech

Wail, wail, screech, wail, howl, honk, squeak went the bagpipes, increasing the Captain's already considerable pleasure at the thought that any moment now they might stop. That was something he looked forward to as well.
~ Douglas Adams
Wail, wail, screech, wail, honk, honk, squeak went the bagpipes, increasing the captain's already considerable pleasure at the thought that any moment now they might stop.
~ Douglas Adams
With the wind blowing through the windows, we all had to remove our caps. My hair was whipping around my face. I heard a screech from the front of the bus. Tiffany, learning to deal with flying hair.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!
~ Alfred Austin
You'll know they've spotted us when they screech," Skulduggery told her. The creatures screeched.
~ Derek Landy
Crom!" muttered the Cimmerian. "Here is the grandfather of all parrots. He must be a thousand years old! Look at the evil wisdom of his eyes. What mysteries do you guard, Wise Devil?" Abruptly the bird spread its flaming wings and soaring from its perch, cried out harshly: "Yagkoolan yok tha, xuthalla!" and with a wild screech of horribly human laughter, rushed away through the trees to vanish in the opalescent shadows.
~ Robert E. Howard
three results. The grind of powdered concrete, the screech of bending
~ Lee Child
Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I let go and dropped on all fours... as quiet as a cat. Actually I landed on a cat. It screeched and howled then shot away. So much for stealth!
~ Anthony Horowitz
ennui. Nevertheless, when he heard the screech of gulls he
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
~ Faith Hunter
But digging up the roots of chaos is like saying it's not the moment the car hits you that's important, or the split second when you step off the curb without looking. You can argue that as soon as you stopped checking when you crossed the street, that's when the trouble really began. The moment of impact is what you remember, however. That breathless instant of screech and thud, the second when the car hits and all other futures are canceled.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
All night I carpenter A space for the thing I am given, A love Of two wet eyes and a screech. White spit  Of indifference! The dark fruits revolve and fall. The glass cracks across, The image Flees and aborts like dropped mercury 
~ Sylvia Plath
That same piercing screech in her voice every time at the hospital. "Do something!" When I slit my wrists. "Help her!" The last time too. "Somebody help her. Help us!" You're helpless, both of you. All of us.
~ Julie Anne Peters
If a soul could leave the body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.
~ Celeste Ng
Is she—dying?" Izzy whispered. It was a ridiculous question, but in that moment she was honestly terrified this might be true. If a soul could leave a body, she thought, this is the sound it would make: like the screech of a nail being pulled from old wood.
~ Celeste Ng
Coleman walked to the far bed and clicked on the TV. "It's Nancy Grace." "America's screech owl.
~ Tim Dorsey
SSSSSCCCCRRIIIIIIITCH!!!!!!!!!
~ Cressida Cowell
I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.
~ Diana Gabaldon