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Quotes About Teakettle

What about the teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of Yellow Submarine, which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which is a French expression that I know.
~ jonathon safran foer
I looked at Camilla, her face bright in the sun, and thought of that line from the Iliad that I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining. And if beauty is terror, said Julian, then what is desire? We think we have many desires but in fact we only have one. What is it? To live said Camilla To live forever said Bunny, chin cupped in palm The teakettle began to whistle.
~ Donna Tartt
He seemed composed now, too much so, a boiling teakettle with the lid strapped down and the spout plugged.
~ Robert Jordan
I've done some research for my books and talked to a few humans, and they all said humans would use guns and knives and clubs for weapons." The Crow nodded. "A screaming woman with a teakettle just doesn't sound sufficiently dangerous." "But she was! They were!" Alan said. "How would a human deal with them?
~ Anne Bishop
A teakettle screamed inside Azalea, burning her fingers, making her throat tight and her head dizzy.
~ Heather Dixon
Susan screamed. I screamed. The vampire screamed. The Ick . . . did that teakettle thing. And then we all started trying to kill one another.
~ Jim Butcher