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Quotes About Hissing

like an out of control fireman; there was a hissing
~ Peter Meredith
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.
~ Philip James Bailey
Dutt made a hissing sound. 'No doubt
~ Alan Hunter
When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.
~ Dick Dale
The wind and the water were carrying on their perpetual quarrel, the wind swooping down to tease the waves and the sea hissing and spitting as it crashed against the land.
~ Ken Follett
Gliding spiderlike, rapidly, close behind Sharon, her body arched backward in a bow with her head almost touching her feet, was Regan, her tongue flicking quickly in and out of her mouth while she sibilantly hissed and moved her head very slightly back and forth like a cobra.
~ William Peter Blatty
Oh, his speed was no shock—speed was never Alec's problem. It was his precision that astonished. Because listen: How many pitchers in any league have a fastball with its own nickname? And what kind of fastball earns the name Mad Mouse? I will tell you: the kind that twists in crackling without one notion where it's going. The kind you don't see but hear hissing to itself like the bottle rocket before the bang.
~ Leif Enger
I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.
~ Libba Bray
They say envy is a coal that comes hot and hissing straight from hell.
~ Fannie Flagg
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
~ Samuel Johnson
A curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach.
~ Anonymous
one step. Creak. Two steps. Creak! Three. Creeeeeak! I stop on the very bottom stair and look across the basement at the huge and creepy mirror. It's still huge and creepy, but other than that, it looks perfectly fine. "There is not a single crack in the mirror," I say. "We're going back to bed. Now." "I never said it was cracked," Jonah says. "I said it was hissing." He approaches
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Do you have any loose teeth?" The hissing demon asked, "What doessss that have to do with anything?" "They can be a choking hazard during the procedure.
~ Scott Meyer
I would appreciate it if you would stop… stop… ogling me like that, she hissed, tugging her very modest neckline higher. It is very embarrassing. She folded her arms across her breasts defensively. He tried to look contrite. It wasn't me, he confessed. It was my eyes. They are bold and easily led and have no sense of propriety.
~ Anne Gracie
Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
~ Philip James Bailey
before. He wore a look of stern sadness and infinite pity. As I expected, he murmured, with that hissing inspiration
~ Bram Stoker
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.
~ J. B. Colbert
By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.
~ Christopher Hitchens
We all love each other, Ange, I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. No, not like this, she went on relentlessly. Fang loves you.......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? Forget it! No one's getting married! I hissed. Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35
~ James Patterson
Envy's a green-eyed monster that comes hissing hot from hell.
~ Leslie Meier
As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
~ Heywood Broun
It seemed that if you listened to that snow hissing long enough, you wouldn't just hear it telling you that it was waiting for you, you'd hear some terrible secret—a secret to turn your life black.
~ Peter Straub
And then I heard the most beautiful sound of my life. Somewhere nearby, a cat let out an angry, hissing scream.
~ Jim Butcher
The enemy wants us paralyzed and compromised by the whispers and doubts and what-ifs and opinions and accusations and misunderstandings and all the other hissing handcuffs crafted by fear.
~ Lysa TerKeurst