whistle quotes

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

- Leonard Bernstein
  The Joy of Music.

The storm without might rair and rustle, Tam did na mind the storm a whistle.

- Robert Burns
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

   I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
   The Major-General's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

Those who wait for the USSR to reject Communism must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
  Speech in Moscow,17 Sep.

There was silence in the room. Then a voice, stunning as thunder, clear and common as a trainwhistlethe voice of a ball-park announcer: 'If you build it, he will come.'

-W(illiam) P(atrick) Kinsella
  'Shoeless  Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa', a short story later expanded into the novel Shoeless Joe (1982) and filmed as Field of Dreams (1989).

Whistle WhileYou Work.

- Larry Morey
   Title of song from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Music by Frank Churchill.

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

- Sir Walter Scott
  Marmion, canto 6, introduction.