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Quotes About Banshee

There aren't as many girl superheroes, but there are cool ones. Banshee, for instance.
~ Kat Dennings
Kasabian is still shrieking like a banshee, which is pretty good for a guy with no lungs.
~ Richard Kadrey
Tom is trying to tag a banshee? By himself? Go for it, coffin bait.
~ Kim Harrison
What's a Dullahan?' 'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.' 'Headless?' 'Yes.' 'Seriously?' 'Yes.' 'So he has no head?' 'That's usually what headless means.' 'No head at all?' 'You're really getting hung up on this headless thing, aren't you?' 'It's just kind of silly, even for us.' 'Yet you spend your days with a living skeleton.' 'But at least he has a head.' 'True.' 'He even has a spare.
~ Derek Landy
We've had a banshee in residence," Jim argued with a wave at Talia. "So we have," Adam answered. A banshee. A weapon. It was about fucking time.
~ Jennifer Ashley
I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
~ Lance Henriksen
Corvis smiled around a mouthful of venison, trying to catch the juices before they rolled down his chin. "I think you're being just a bit paranoid, Davro. Legends and superstition." "You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.
~ Ari Marmell
At night I drank and my hostility came roaring out if its cave like a jet-assisted banshee.
~ barthelme donald iii
She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn't know, but the idea completely grossed me out. "In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries." I wasn't just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn't fair.
~ C.E. Murphy
A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee
~ Chris Bohjalian
She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat's tail—you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.
~ Cassandra Clare
She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cats tail- you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh." -Magnus to Clary, pg.228-
~ Cassandra Clare
Mor-Rioghain is a bean-sidhe, a banshee
~ Graham Masterton
Her beliefs were not extravagant. She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments. Her faith was bounded by her kitchen but, if she was put to it, she could believe also in the banshee and in the Holy Ghost.
~ James Joyce
No one in 'Banshee' has small opinions. They have strong beliefs, and they will defend them ferociously. Having that element in the show just adds another level. It's another avenue for story, and it enriches the world.
~ Antony Starr
The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athward and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.
~ William Faulkner
'Banshee' was interesting because it was on cable, and it didn't have commercial breaks, so it read like a movie. Not only because of that, but it was a pretty interesting style, and I hadn't read a show like this.
~ Trieste Kelly Dunn
The Irish word for fairy is sheehogue [sidheóg], a diminutive of "shee" in banshee. Fairies are deenee shee [daoine sidhe] (fairy people).
~ W.B. Yeats
asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, "Am I not annoyed with them?" I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. "I have seen it," he said, "down there by the water, batting the river with its hands.
~ W.B. Yeats
Did Owen say your grandmother was a banshee? He said she was 'wailing like a banshee,' I explained. Dan got out the dictionary , then; he was clucking his tongue and shaking his head, and laughing at himself saying, That boy! What a boy! Brilliant but preposterous! And that was the first time I learned, literally, what a banshee was--a banshee, in Irish folklore, is a female spirit whose wailing is a sign that a loved one will soon die.
~ John Irving
The man was married to a half-fae, half-human woman, a banshee, who'd' just delivered twins. It was a wonder his hair wasn't completely prematurely white.
~ Unknown
How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle, And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle. What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me? I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me. Your wife can't be a banshee— Or can she?
~ Ogden Nash