It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.
Quotes about hisses (7 Quotes)
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock the holly whistles as it battles with itself the ash hisses amid its quiverings the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall.
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim cheers today, hisses tomorrow utter forgetfulness in a few months.
Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas
Xiu Xiu have a taste for discord atonal arrangements filled with foghorns, tape hisses, and violent beats and topped off by Stewarts whispery vocals and the melodrama of his confessional lyrics. The latter have inspired open-mouthed fandom from sensitive scenesters who find solace in his pain, and attacks from critics as being cloying and histrionic. People have thrown lit cigarettes at me and audiences have yelled all kinds of nasty shit, ... Then there are also people who drive 800 miles to come see us play and ask if they can come sit in our van for three days because they dont have a bus ride home.
The Iraq war has so polarized this country. That's why you hear hisses and boos and claps, depending on what you're saying people want to hear journalists reaffirm their previously held beliefs about the war. And I don't do that. I simply speak what I see. And I'm sorry if that's offensive to people, but I'm a journalist.