Whispering Quotes - page 3

it was the period I think of as the age of the pillow.. .What I wanted to bring out - is that which cannot be measured - I wanted to bring out the tired movement in the eyelids - the lips must look as though they are whispering - she must look as though she is breathing - I want life - what is alive. [on his painting 'The sick Child']. (Edvard Munch)
Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code. View quote
Carl Jung
Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home. View quote
Vanna Bonta
The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows. View quote
Libba Bray
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? View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Outside the door a group of men stood whispering while the less solemn parts of the Mass were being said. These men stared about them at the rolling country of little hills and commented on the crops, the weather, the tombstones or whatever came into their dreaming minds. 'Very weedy piece of spuds, them of Mick Finnegan's.' 'He doesn't put on the dung, Larry: the man that doesn't drive on the dung won't take out a crop.' A pause, 'Nothing like the dung. View quote
Patrick Kavanagh
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. View quote
Jean Paul
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out". View quote
Joseph Conrad
I really remember John Lennon's Imagine. I guess I'm twelve; that's one of my first albums. That really set fire to me. It was like he was whispering in your ear - his ideas of what's possible. Different ways of seeing the world. View quote
Bono
There was a man sitting or kneeling on Sampson's window-sill, and looking in, and I thought he was beckoning...He looked as if he was wet all over: and," he said, looking round and whispering as if he hardly liked to hear himself, "I'm not at all sure that he was alive. (M. R. James)
In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities, all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny. View quote
Denise Linn
I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other. View quote
Janet Fitch
The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything. View quote
Alison Gopnik
Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones. "... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her." "Who was it?" "His own wife." "Oh, dear. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
When I awoke in the morning, my mother and Julia Hislop were whispering in a corner. They didn't have to tell me why. I already knew that my father was dead. And when the feeling of peace wore off, the surprise at having known intensified my sense of loss and sorrow. Although I was only nine, I could imagine what death meant. I knew he was gone forever. View quote
Lana Turner
Relax. Breathe in deep. Hold it. Let it out. Loosen your shoulders. Smile. Close your eyes. You'll be surprised at how many voices you'll hear, whispering sweet encouragement into your ear. View quote
Mike Dooley
To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation. View quote
Andrea Bocelli
I can't believe this,” Mary said, whispering urgently. "Every time I talk to you I think I've heard the worst, and then you come along and say something even stupider. View quote
Lisa Goldstein
The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
I was just sitting in Target, just getting over my cold. I blew my nose and I see these people looking at me and kind of whispering and pointing. Finally, I went, 'Is everything okay? Did I do something wrong? Do I have a booger on my face and no one's telling me?' I'm just not used to it. (Atticus Shaffer)
There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky. View quote
Dejan Stojanovic
I actually have a life I said I wanted to have. I wanted to tell stories I want and be with my family. I'm whispering it, because I'm a quarter Jewish and afraid it's all going to be taken away. View quote
Helen Hunt
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately. View quote
Julianna Baggott
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you. View quote
Malcolm Turnbull