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• Mercury dropped the purple car and shot up into the air, whistling like a shooting star. The woman in the car next to me looked up at me like I was a superhero. I smiled at her and jumped down, trying to be smooth. I landed wrong and went sliding on my face. I glanced back at her. She appeared less impressed than before.

  Obert Skye

  Stars, Purple, Air

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• I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Guy, Singers

  FaceBook post by Taylor Swift from Apr 05, 2010

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• Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,” he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over the stray’s body to open the back passenger-side door. “Yeah, well, I’m not your standard enforcer.

  Rachel Vincent

  Doors, Sound, Body

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.16, MIRA

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• A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. “What bird are you calling?” I asked finally, when I couldn’t stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. “You.

  Karen Russell

  Lonely, Fall, Men

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• I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world

  Gustave Flaubert

  Brother, Horse, Angel

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.147, U of Nebraska Press

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• All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.

  Jim Tully

  Strong, Winter, Night

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• Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Information Processing, Ayahuasca

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• I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Years, People

  "The Dreamer: Charlotte Gainsbourg". Interview with Danger Mouse, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

  Bobbejaan Schoepen

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

  Andrew Bird

  Singing, Sound, Different

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2006.

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• But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference on the part of the perpetrator to the rest of the world in general, are not only registered on the delicate surfaces of the brain but eat little holes in it until it finally collapses or blows up.

  Robert Benchley

  Blow, Ice, Brain

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Intelligent, Wish, Logic

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Brian McGuinness (2012). “Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911-1951”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.

  Dylan Thomas

  Nature, Clouds, October

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.

  Alan Coren

  Strong, Men, Boys

  Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”

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• A verbose, prosaic review which mentions whistling winds and the timeless feeling of jade doesn't mean anything to me; I don't need a novella telling me about how an album is like a fine meal.

  David Cross

  Mean, Wind, Feelings

  "David Cross Disses Album Reviews, Notorious B.I.G, Dane Cook, Religion". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

  George Eliot

  Archer, Perfect, Deer

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.439

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• The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.123, e-artnow

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• No clouds are in the morning sky,
  The vapors hug the stream,
  Who says that life and love can die
  In all this northern gleam?
  At every turn the maples burn,
  The quail is whistling free,
  The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
  Are dropping for you and me.
  Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
  Hillyho!
  In the clear October morning.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Morning, Life And Love, Sky

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• It is a poor dog that is not worth the whistling

  John Heywood

  Dog, Fun, Poor

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.357

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• His screaming stallions maned with whistling wind.

  Anna Hempstead Branch

  Wind, Stallions

  Anna Hempstead Branch, “Nimrod”

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