To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of…

“I was reading about animals a while back and there was this motherfucking scientist in France back in the thirties or forties or whenever…

— Cheryl Strayed

Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own…

— Jon Anderson

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

— Axel Munthe

“Sometimes the easiest thing to do is nothing. You just make do. Keep your mouth closed and hope all the rattling goes away.”

— Susan Henderson

“Silence in the shell of a city, no baby crying, no car honking, no ambulance shrieking, no lovers moaning, no drunks throwing up in…

— Anne Roiphe

At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you…

— Elliot Cowan

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast…

— Franz Kafka

“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.”

— Charles Bukowski

“When someone's rattling on about blocked toilets, collapsing marquees, and penis-shaped birthday cakes, it's hard to convince yourself that you're in a life-or-death situation.”

— Catherine Jinks

War makes rattling good history.

— Thomas Hardy

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it…

— Paul Theroux

Pick up a person, shake them around and youll hear the rattling of their broken pieces

— Anonymous

“He were still smiling but his voice were hard as a spoon rattling in a metal cup.”

— Peter Carey

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

— George Orwell

The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.

— Rand Paul