Rattling Quotes
61 quotes by 57 authors
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile…
— Red Adair
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At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
— Edward Burnett Tylor
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it…
— Joseph Lyons
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Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture,…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect…
— John Donne
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Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.
— Ilka Chase
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The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the…
— Chuck Jones
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I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a…
— Ansel Adams
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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot…
— Benjamin Banneker
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Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.
— Peter H. Reynolds
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the…
— Harold Larwood
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Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind.
— Dave Beard
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
— Lysa TerKeurst
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Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.
— Leonid Brezhnev
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther…
— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are.…
— Dennis Nilsen
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Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone…
— Robert Montgomery
Who Wrote These Rattling Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 61 Rattling Quotes, led by these top contributors: