Top 55 Whistle Quotes

Yes, when I come up with ideas on my own, it’s almost always a melody, just as often an instrument or bassline as it is a vocal. But it is a single, linear, monophonic thing. Something you could hum or whistle.

We don’t always agree on stuff, but when it’s time to blow the whistle and start the game, we’re not still debating.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

The consistency of the game calls, I’ve been on both sides of it. I’ve been where the whistle has been in favor of you.

The fans are always right. If they whistle or jeer someone, it’s because they want him to be effective.

If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you’re probably not writing anything that’s going to last a long time.

It’s an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

As soon as the whistle blows, something triggers me.

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.

I’m as clean as a whistle.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

You know, 20 years… the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they’re clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that’s not the case. That’s better for me.

As a player, you just pick up your kit, go out, and train or wait for the ref to blow the whistle.

I was straight listening to rap at 15: LL Cool J, the Skinny Boys, Whistle, UTFO. And Run-D.M.C.’s debut was at the top of my list.

Unfortunately, it is part of Italian football and our culture to come to the stadium and whistle players for the choices they make.

The moment I decided to blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, there are protections that are afforded to me.

I can’t replicate how I feel when that whistle goes on nights like that, knowing you’ve won it, that people are going home smiling. You don’t get that sat on my tractor in Plymouth or doing the shop in Tesco.

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.

When the fans whistle, it’s clear that you have to change something and the fans have every right to do it.

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.

I saw my sister in this production of ‘Whistle Down the Wind’ – my sister was a really big theater kid – and when I saw her do that, I was so obsessed. Those were like my first words; I was singing along to the songs. From that point on, I did theater, and then I got into acting in film and television.

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.

I ended up getting sent off at The Dell against Liverpool for two bookable offences. I think that was the lowest point of my career. I ran straight into the dressing-room and stayed there, alone, until the final whistle.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

I have three tools at my disposal – my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

I’m going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it’s the end of the game. That’s how I’m going to keep playing.

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!’

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver’s permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one’s car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

I do not like to discuss a game with the other players right after the final whistle.

When I was little, I didn’t smile much. Don’t get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn’t stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn’t win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

Some officials are afraid to blow the whistle with 20,000 people screaming and yelling at them. Some officials love to have the crowd go against them.

My first films, ‘Tamizhan’ and ‘Whistle,’ showcased me in a different light – as an urbane composer.

My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I’d wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn’t realise why at the time.

Oh, I’ll tell you about ‘Anyone Can Whistle’ – the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.

It shouldn’t take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well – that’s just the beginning. As you get older people don’t want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

I remember when we were making ‘They Call It Pro Football,’ which was our ‘Citizen Kane.’ The first line is ‘It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.’

Whenever I meet children’s parents, they complain that the kids don’t sleep until they listen to my whistle baja song! My songs have captivated the kids.

When I grew up, my model of God was like a lifeguard: I knew He loved me, but He blew his whistle a lot.

To whistle your own player at one time or another, even before kick-off, I don’t think is fair. It doesn’t help the player carry on, so it doesn’t help the team.

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time – and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.

Contrary to what the fans may think, you don’t just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night.

Every time you blow the whistle, half the people are going to be mad at you.

I knew I had to cover my back and document what I saw as an opportunity to kind of blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the White House, and I knew that I needed to document that corruption; otherwise, people would not take it seriously.

I knew the whistle of each of the river boats on the Tennessee.

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him – any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.

When elected officials and others contribute to a climate and culture that fosters hyper-partisanship, we’ve got to blow the whistle.

First there was racism. Then liberals created institutional racism and coded racism. You can only hear it with a dog whistle.

It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film – it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.

Anything that needs to be labelled ‘The Entertainment’ usually isn’t – especially when it is provided by the endlessly enthusiastic Joel or Nadia wearing trainers and a whistle.

I can dance, act, beatbox and whistle very well.

It’s always interesting to be playing against some of my best friends and some of my longtime teammates. You get to see them before the game and after the game and it’s always nice to catch up but when the whistle blows it’s sort of all business on the field.