Whisper Quotes - page 8

It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. (Annie Dillard)
Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
With whisper of her mellowing grain, With treble of brook and bud and tree, Earth joys for ever to sustain The bass eternal of the sea. View quote
Roden Noel
You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
He leaned closer, their faces drawing near, and he could feel the heat of her breath mingling with his. He closed his eyes against the memory of a thousand other kisses and touched his lips to hers. He felt a kind of spark, and all at once he felt her slowly coming back to him. She was the arm that held him close in times of trouble, she was the whisper on the pillow beside him at night. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
You've been gone so long from all that you know. It's been shuffled aside as you bask in the glow. All the beauitful strangers who whisper your name, do they fill up the emptiness Larger that life is your fiction, in a universe made upon one. View quote
Sarah McLachlan
Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back, but I don't quite catch it. View quote
Suzanne Collins
So they were turning, after all those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma You see, this is my life. It always will be (In a whisper) There's nothing else just us and the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up. View quote
Gloria Swanson
Hear oh hear, if my prayer be worthy and such as you yourself might whisper to my frenzy. Those I begot (no matter in what bed) did not try to guide me, bereft of sight and sceptre, or sway my grieving with words. Nay behold (ah agony!), in their pride, kings this while by my calamity, they even mock my darkness, impatient of their father's groans. Even to them am I unclean? And does the sire of the gods see it and do naught? Do you at least, my rightful champion, come hither and range all my progeny for punishment. Put on your head this gore-soaked diadem that I tore off with my bloody nails. Spurred by a father's prayers, go against the brothers, go between them, let steel make partnership of blood fly asunder. Queen of Tartarus' pit, grant the wickedness I would fain see. (Statius)
If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now. View quote
Mario Batali
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. View quote
Mary Stewart
How many is there, John?. Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill? View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. View quote
Anne Lamott
As I lay me down to sleep, this I pray. That you will hold me, dear. Though I'm far away, I whisper your name into the sky. And I will wake up happy. View quote
Sophie B. Hawkins
I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head. View quote
El Greco
Thou art the whisper in the gloom, The hinting tone, the haunting laugh: Thou art the adorner of my tomb, The minstrel of mine epitaph. View quote
Lionel Johnson
Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God. View quote
Bill Hybels
Duluth! The word fell upon my ear with a peculiar and indescribable charm, like the gentle murmur of a low fountain stealing forth in the midst of roses, or the soft sweet accent of an angel's whisper in the bright, joyous dream of sleeping innocence. 'T was the name for which my soul had panted for years, as the hart panteth for the water-brooks. View quote
J. Proctor Knott
You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
It seemed to whisper 'Quietness,' Then quietly itself was gone: Yet echoes of its mute caress Were with me as the years went on. View quote
George William Russell
The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. View quote
Charles Lamb
Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme. View quote
Ray Bradbury
When he came to me, he touched me on the brow, and on the nose, and on the chin, and he said to me, in a whisper, "Live forever.” And I decided to. View quote
Ray Bradbury