Rattle Quotes
80 quotes by 72 authors
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Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicineâ€: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!
— Rosa Luxemburg
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to…
— Samuel Beckett
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You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in…
— Paul Thomas Anderson
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Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those…
— Heather McHugh
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Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling…
— Robin Hobb
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In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people,…
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.
— Clive James
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The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle,…
— Michael Crichton
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Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from…
— Alistair Cooke
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The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
— R. D. Laing
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It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is…
— William Morris Hunt
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Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly…
— Alexander Haig
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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid…
— Danny DeVito
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Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.
— Big Joe Turner
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I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
— Charlie Haden
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In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.
— Bob Dylan
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Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little…
— Hunter S. Thompson
Who Wrote These Rattle Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 80 Rattle Quotes, led by these top contributors: