Whistling Quotes

“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

“Nobody likes a whistler, particularly not the divinity that shapes our ends.”
― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

“As we rode along LaBoeuf commenced whistling tunes, perhaps to take his mind off his sore arm. Rooster said, "God damn a man that whistles!" It was the wrong thing to say if he wished it to stop.”
― Charles Portis

“Self-driving cars are so lonely. Are you really going to use all that extra commute time to binge-watch Netflix? Why not hire me to sit next to you and whistle all your favorite tunes?”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“The sound circulated like an autonomous being whose tentacles needed to experience a sensitive awareness of the terrain.”
― Ondjaki, The Whistler

“The endlessness of the extent of that whistle resulted, without a doubt, also in an enormous metaphysical knowledge of the art of whistling, which mingled, not just with the hearing of people, but extended, in an incisive manner, to the depths of their souls, the protected corner where each one hid their things- that frightening cave, which many call the centre of their being.”
― Ondjaki, The Whistler

“Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards”
― Jussi Adler-Olsen, Disgrace

“...[H]e had just acquired... a valued novelty in whistling... [H]e strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his soul full of gratitude. He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet - no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned, the advantage was with the boy, not the astronomer.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“All the boys in the middle school locker room used to tease me and tell me I danced like Tina Turner. But that didn't stop them from throwing baloney sandwiches at me and whistling.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“I whistled a great deal in those days”
― Art Young, Art Young: His Life and Times