Whistles Quotations

There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

If this hunt goes through, there will be other requests coming to the Russian government to hunt belugas. Before long we could have a hunt of a couple thousand Belugas. Once you start commercial whaling in any species, you have to make sure all of the bells and whistles are in place, that all the regulations are there from A to Z. Every time we have had a commercial hunt of whales there has been over-exploitation.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

He laid down the law. He was like, 'We have to make this kind of a Gomez record are you in or are you out? The songs are gonna be about the vocals and the harmonies.' And he never swayed away from that line. ... He kept stopping us from throwing in all the whistles and bells, as he would always call it.

I believe there's a lot of great marketers out there who know how to package things. Are these goodies that you want and need to pay for. Or is it bells and whistles that you don't need?

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

I was happy with our kids' effort. Okemos was able to shoot 36 free throws to our 11 attempts, I felt like we were in Ann Arbor. It's definitely not an excuse, but sometimes it's hard to overcome when the whistles are not going your way.

It comes with a licensing program and all the bells and whistles that a full-time primary sponsor would have.

Travelers aren't asking for much. According to this survey, airlines should forget about the latest bells and whistles and get back to the basics, like clean bathrooms and comfortable seating.

When it comes to exercise equipment, you really do get what you pay for. The low-end stuff won't have all the bells and whistles of the more expensive equipment, plus you'll have more maintenance issues and it's likely to wear out sooner.

We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.

We know that material costs have gone up, and I think we can get a 5,000-seat stadium and the 15 courts, ... some of the whistles and bells we looked at might not be there.

Turf is the ideal surface to play field hockey on. It is much faster game and I think that the faster teams will benefit from it. Also, people who come out to watch the games will enjoy it more because there is less whistles to slow down the flow of the game.

Every time Microsoft nails additional, insubstantial bells and whistles on a new version of Office, they increase the relevancy of Linux alternatives.

They're trying to pack the house and do some sort of made-for-TV show of strength. But the bottom line is that you're spending all that money to speak to a room full of people who have already made up their minds. You can spend a lot of money for bells and whistles and dog and pony shows. But that doesn't build your organization, and caucuses are about organization, not bells and whistles.

Even before Merrill Lynch made its announcement, there was competition to add more bells and whistles to your Web site. Merrill's decision will definitely motivate fund companies even more.

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

I know they've got to call things tighter and we have to adjust. But this is a contact sport. There's a fine line there. We don't want to drive fans away because of all the whistles and penalties.

I mean there were tambourines, and a gong and that kind of thing. And all sorts of weird things, whistles and even a little cupboard with a door that opened and shut so you could get the noise of a door opening if you wanted to have someone coming in and out of a room. And it was really a junkyard more than anything else.

In spite of crossing guards blowing their whistles and waving their hands, (the driver) kept going, oblivious to the child standing directly in front of her.

Take your cars, take your whistles and trumpets. Use your car horns, make a din to be remembered and do it nonstop on Saturday.

Honestly, I think it's trying to sell the bells and whistles when they should really be working on how to swing the club, ... It all starts on the (PGA) Tour and with Tiger (Woods). They see the ball spin and trajectory and all that and they want to do it. But in about 90 percent of the cases, what we should really be worried about is getting the ball airborne in the first place.

Generally expatriate packages these days do not have all the bells and whistles on they used to and they don't have so many perks.

As far as different bells and whistles that we offered, there wasn't anything tremendous that stood out. In theory, in the future we could feed multiple camera angles online and people could direct their own launch, which would be nice.

It's just another year. I try not to put a whole lot of bells and whistles into it. If I start to do that, it gets in the way of my preparation. Now all of a sudden I'm worried about what happens in my last home game, my last road game or my last game I'd ever play against Dallas. It doesn't matter. I just want to play.

It's not as many people as other places, but you have 20,000 people blowing their whistles and banging their drums. I've never seen anything like it.

It was a very sluggish game - a whole lot of whistles and it never got into a flow. We won the game with our defense tonight. Our perimeter defense was excellent.

We just got rid of the bells and whistles and just played football. Our offensive line really started coming off the ball and making holes. There was nothing fancy in what we did for the last quarter and a half.

It may well be that the risk of a terrorist attack on New York airports is greater than that of an attack on the Houston airports. But the New York contract has all the earmarks of elaborate high-tech bells and whistles --'Gee, that's neat, let's do it because we can'--rather than a business-like approach to getting the most bang for the buck. Let's hope it does not become the model for perimeter protection.

There were a lot of whistles and every foul they were calling. It was tough to get going because they would call stuff.

They really took a few of our girls out of the game. And I thought that we were just being aggressive, no more aggressive than we normally are. All of the whistles just went the other way.

O'er rough and smooth she trips along,/ And never looks behind;/ And sings a solitary song/ That whistles in the wind.