Quotes and Sayings about Whisper
"I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper."
- David Brenner
(Related: People, Golf, Television, Whisper)
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
- Thomas Carlyle
(Related: Whisper, Will)
"I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it."
- Jonathan Coe
(Related: Biography, Personality, Writing)
"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Truth, Friends, Poison, Youth)
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Life, Grave, May, Reputation, Whisper)
"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where."
- William Congreve
"There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; And not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, But in its hues and fragrance tells a tale Of thee, my love."
- Barry Cornwall
(Related: Love, Moon, Name, Wind)
"I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given."
- David Coverdale
(Related: Hope, Now, Want, Whisper)
"I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much."
- Penelope Cruz
(Related: Love, Life, Truth, Job, Lies, Sleep, Whisper)
"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."
- John Donne
(Related: Men, Friends, Now, Whisper)
"There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: People, Insecurity)
"For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard."
- Rita Dove
(Related: Thought, Whisper, Years)
"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers."
- Black Elk
(Related: Mountains, Nothing, Now, World)
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Gods, May)
"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
- Errol Flynn
(Related: Whisper)
"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers."
- Thomas Fuller
(Related: Power, Will)
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
- Judy Garland
(Related: Soul, Heart)
"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Work, Music, Heart, Dumb)
"Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington."
- William Greider
(Related: News, Routine, Washington)
"Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear."
- Andrei A. Gromyko
(Related: Husband, Night, Whisper)
"My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!"
- Josh Hartnett
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
(Related: Life, Now, Whisper, Words)
"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Life, Love, God, Lovers, Prayer, Whisper)
"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""
- Rudyard Kipling
(Related: Art, Heart, Devil, First, Joy, Pretty, World)
"Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude."
- Juliette Lewis
(Related: People, Attitude, Fame, Man, Whisper)
"My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."
- Mary Todd Lincoln
(Related: Genius, Evil, Procrastination)
"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: People, Court, Fool, Whisper)
"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."
- Earl Long
(Related: Smile, Talk, Whisper)
"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth."
- Chico Marx
(Related: Kissing)
"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."
- Audie Murphy
(Related: Race, Space)
"I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone."
- Conor Oberst
(Related: Eyes, Secrets)
"A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper."
- Marcel Pagnol
(Related: Whisper)
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
- Jean Paul
(Related: Home, Father, Children, End, Posterity, Privacy, Words, World)
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato
(Related: Heart, Song)
"I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it."
- Trevor Rabin
(Related: People, Action, Disney, Film, Will)
"It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation."
- Lord John Russell
(Related: Nation, Voice, Whisper)
"You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not."
- Adam Sandler
(Related: Women, People, Gay, Hollywood, Sleep, Talk)
"The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Related: Nature)
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
- Paul Simon
(Related: Silence, Words)
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."
- Logan P. Smith
"Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'"
- David Spade
(Related: Success, People, Friend)
"All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature."
- Rudolf Steiner
(Related: Nature, Soul, Language, Now, Secrets, Whisper)
"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."
- Mary Stewart
(Related: Calumny, Whisper)
"Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie."
- Louis Stokes
(Related: Assassination, President, Whisper)
"We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
(Related: Men, Brother, Shame, Whisper)
"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."
- Miguel de Unamuno
(Related: People, Whisper, Will)
"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
- Earl Wilson
(Related: Duty, Temptation, Whisper)