The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape,' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'
I really love watching the 70s live performance TV series "The Midnight Special" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test". Those are the best performances you've ever seen, and they sound incredible.
There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.
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
No one can whistle a symphony.
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
What did you say to Souness after the end of the final whistle?
If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who would have to tolerate me otherwise. Marry me because I need someone who will help me to laugh at myself. Because someone has to teach me how to whistle. Marry me, Lillian… because I have the most irresistible fascination for your ears.
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.
Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?
I'm as clean as a whistle.
I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.
It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.
If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle. . . he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage.
You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
