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Tag Name "Whistle" (109)

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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
Willa Cather
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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.
Merle Haggard
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You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
Enoch Powell
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The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.
James Taranto
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My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man
Ashley Cole
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I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.
Eugene Chadbourne
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I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
Mitch Hedberg
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
Tatum O'Neal
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I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
Elton John
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That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
D. H. Lawrence
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the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
M.C. Beaton
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Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we'd hear the whistle and we'd all come running. Like dogs!
Kate Winslet
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One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.
Byron Dorgan
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I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.
Mario Vazquez
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I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mitch Hedberg
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The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.
Jon Stewart
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When the whistle blows, I’m completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.
Tim Howard
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I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.
Helen Oyeyemi
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.
Meindert DeJong
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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
Alan Green
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The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark and then the towering weak and pale.
Allen Tate
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
Paul McCartney
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I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.
Jacques Tati
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