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Quotes About Screeching

The static's nice. I could do without the screeching." "Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful . Like old jazz.
~ Peter Watts
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.
~ Douglas Adams
I heard a screeching like steam from a teapot, and realized it was me.
~ David Wong
Callistanas aren't so bad either," I said, looking down at my satchel. "That 'pain in the ass' screeching saved me from a face full of acid." Adrian put his hand to his heart in mock horror. "Sage, did you just swear?
~ Richelle Mead
No sooner had the words passed his lips than he was taken up and whisked into the moat with prodigious force; and the fairies came crowding round about him with great anger, screeching and screaming and roaring out, "Who spoiled our tune? Who spoiled our tune?"
~ yeats william butler ii
Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
~ Aristophanes
They'd be complaining about having to walk, and screeching at me to 'do something, Freddy, do something!'" "But what could you do?" she said, puzzled. "Carry them, probably." He gave her a hopeful look. "Do you want me to carry you?
~ Anne Gracie
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
~ Peter Shaffer
She wanted there to be more blood and screeching. She wanted each death to detonate before her like a little black firework. She wanted it to matter. There was bellowing all around her, but the killing itself was soft and quiet and matter of fact. Life to death, life to death, with no more drama than turning over a counterpane.
~ Frances Hardinge
Neville did a remarkable simulation of running in fourteen directions at once, whimpering, screeching, and snapping his teeth. The seder stopped
~ Herman Wouk
I wondered if maybe this kind of thing happened all the time in Vegas -- cars full of late-arriving passengers screeching desperately across the runway, dropping off wild eyed Samoans clutching mysterious canvas bags who would sprint onto planes at the last possible second and then roar off into the sunrise.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
She cuts between two veering, blaring, and screeching BMWs. BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements—this is how they convince themselves they didn't get ripped off. She
~ Neal Stephenson
She cuts between two veering, blaring, and screeching BMWs. BMW drivers take evasive action at the drop of a hat, emulating the drivers in the BMW advertisements—this is how they convince themselves they didn't get ripped off.
~ Neal Stephenson
a flutter of wings rippling the fabric of the night. "Balastair!" chirps a voice. At first he thinks it's Cicero, but it's not, not at all—Cicero is still in the air, still chirping and screeching in alarm. "Erasmus," Balastair says with a small smile. "I've missed you.
~ Chuck Wendig
tinted windows rounded the corner, obviously chasing Kevin. It blew past us, screeching to a
~ Janet Evanovich
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.
~ Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
She sounded like a blackboard being run through a table saw.
~ John Sandford
And when I say the Fashion Police, of course I'm speaking of the small group of screeching gay guys and fashion "experts" on that E! show led by the reanimated corpse of Joan Rivers.
~ Mindy Kaling