
George Bernard Shaw, in The Scots Observer, September 6, 1890; cited from Dan H. Laurence (ed.) Shaw's Music (London: The Bodley Head, 1989) vol. 2, p. 174.
Criticism
Book I, Ch. 16.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
George Bernard Shaw, in The Scots Observer, September 6, 1890; cited from Dan H. Laurence (ed.) Shaw's Music (London: The Bodley Head, 1989) vol. 2, p. 174.
Criticism
“The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.”
Part I, line 58. Compare: "Whistling to keep myself from being afraid", John Dryden, Amphitryon Act iii, scene 1.
The Grave (1743)
The Oprah Winfrey Show, January 23, 2006
"The next … months" in Iraq
Games Without Frontiers
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (III) (1980)
“Surprising news from New York, the whistle-blower had his whistle blown!”
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Weekend Update samples
Epistle to Lloyd I' as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Statement c. 1962, as quoted in Marilyn (1992) by Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham, Ch. 30
Variant: I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me — and that I've made of myself — as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.
“Shut up Murdock, crazy fool!”
Quotes from acting
“Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.”
Virgil, Georgics, book ii, line 72; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Ravish'd with the whistling of a name", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv, line 281.