The bud of the apple is desire, the down-falling gold, The catbird's gobble in the morning half-awake... These are real only if I make them so. Whistle For me, grow green for me and, as you whistle and grow green, Intangible arrows quiver and stick in the skin And I taste at the root of the tongue the unreal of what is real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
crew member [offscreen]: That's an awful big town San Francisco. Weinberg: Strictly a one-whistle stop. There's only one city... in the USA and that's New York. Chief Sergeant: Oh, you're just another hometown hick, Weinberg. What's wrong with California? Weinberg: California. The sun shines and nothing happens. Before you know it, you're sixty years old. Chief Sergeant: It's no different from New York. My sister's been tryin' to get out of Brooklyn for the last forty years. Weinberg: Brooklyn. That ain't New York, Chief. Once you cross that Brooklyn Bridge, you're out of this world. The only noise you hear is the hardening of your arteries. You know when I used to drive a hack, I had a pal who crossed that bridge back in 1929 and ain't never heard from him since.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fireside for the cricket, The wheatstack for the mouse,... When trembling night-winds whistle And moan all round the house;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their hus...bands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. ...Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad... Other things just make you swear and curse When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help turn things out for the best ... And ... always look on the bright side of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Again we mistook a little rocky islet seen through the "drisk," with some taller bare trunks or stumps on it, for the steamer with... its smoke-pipes, but as it had not changed its position after half an hour, we were undeceived. So much do the works of man resemble the works of nature. A moose might mistake a steamer for a floating isle, and not be scared till he heard its puffing or its whistle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O he did whistle and she did sing, And all the bells on earth did ring... For joy our Saviour Christ was born On Christmas Day in the morning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »