Quotes About Whistle

A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

As Nat and Danny took the kick-off, the ref blew for full time.

For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and all of a sudden the sun was gone and the whistle was blowing and you were on your long way home to supper. When you weren't looking, the sun got around behind you! The only way to keep things slow was to watch everything and do nothing!

In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle.

Heap on more wood!—the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

Back on the Enterprise, Riker heads into the holodeck to meet up with Data, who we learn can't whistle like a human, wants to be human, and is consequently called "Pinocchio" by Riker. The whole bit really wants to be sweet and a little funny, but it ends up being kind of lame.

The urge to flee is a high-pitched whistle and I stare into a black cavity of space that stinks of urine and dead flowers. Of rotting oranges and leather and spray paint. I crawl into the space and find a corner. I stare into the shadows and I see several corpselike figures, coiled in burlap sacks around me. Sleeping drunks with the faces of dogs, of horses. I blink and they're not there.

In Martinique, when the whistle blew for the tourists to get back on the ship, I had a quick, wild, and lovely moment when I decided I wouldn't get back on the ship. I did, though. And I found that somebody had stolen the pants to my dinner jacket.

Ford even began to whistle, which was probably his mistake. Nobody likes a whistler

The international code for signalling with a whistle is: One blast – Where are you? Two blasts – Come to me Three blasts – I need help Response – One blast

If you don't see birds, try calling them. You don't need to have a bird-calling whistle, and you don't even have to know any special calls. One sound that attracts avians: Call pish, pish, pish several times. Another is loudly kissing the back of your hand.

Coach Henley gave his whistle two short blasts to get the team moving. The Westerly Women ambled over and formed a half circle. The Mothers stamped their feet on the bleachers, trying to build excitement for a game that would unfold with the same painful drama as a mime's funeral. The opposing team hadn't even bothered to warm up. Their shortest player was six feet tall

Coach Henley gave his whistle two short blasts to get the team moving. The Westerly Women ambled over and formed a half circle. The Mothers stamped their feet on the bleachers, trying to build excitement for a game that would unfold with the same painful drama as a mime's funeral. The opposing team hadn't even bothered to warm up. Their shortest player was six feet tall and had hands the size of dinner plates.

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head, Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed; Where the rug's two-fold use we might display, By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

it's spring and the goat-footed balloonMan whistles far and wee

Over the brow of a ridge, across the winding high road, flashed a tawny and white shape that was silhouetted for an instant on the pulsing sky-line – the shape of a large collie running as not dog but a collie or a greyhound can run. Close to earth, in his sweeping stride, Buff was coming at full speed in response the far-heard whistle.

Atheists put on false courage in the midst of their darkness and misaprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark,will sing or whistle to keep their courage.

Whenever I feel afraid I hold my head erect and whistle a happy tune.

I whistled. You have evil thoughts for a goat.

In the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill stared out at the players of Liverpool Football Club on the pitch. The Anfield pitch. In the sun, the players of Liverpool Football Club shining. In the sun, in their kits. Their red shirts, their white shorts. And their white socks. And in the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill heard the whistle blow, Bill heard the crowd roar. The Anfield crowd.

since I know for a fact that her class had been in the physics labs when Mr. Fibs got attacked by the bees he thought he'd genetically modified to obey commands from a whistle. (Turns out they only respond to the voice of James Earl Jones.)

You need me, just whistle, he said as he arranged his ball cap over his eyes against the sun leaking through the frost-emptied branches. You're not coming? Lifting the brim of his cap, he eyed me, You want me to? he asked blandly. Not really, no. He dropped the brim and laced his hands over his middle. Then why are you bitching? It's a crime scene, not a grocery store.