Rattle Quotes

80 quotes by 72 authors

Amusement should be used to do us good â€œlike a medicineâ€: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all… — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
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
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
Given a blank we canâ€™t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those… — Heather McHugh
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
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
The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag. — Clive James
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
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
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
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
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
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
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man. — Big Joe Turner
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. — Charlie Haden
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
The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. — Bob Dylan
Freedom, Truth, Honour Â— you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little… — Hunter S. Thompson

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