Rattling Quotes

61 Rattling quotes by 57 unique authors

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family. — Douglas William Jerrold
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise… — Susan Orlean
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' — Robert Fulghum
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. — Evelyn Glennie
I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like,… — Will Ferrell
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;… — Samuel Johnson
Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate… — Jeffrey Kluger
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D. H. Lawrence
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you… — Hilary Mantel
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But… — Jamie Oliver
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. — George Orwell
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness. — Henry James
So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the… — Steven Millhauser
That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be… — Thomas Hardy
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a… — Julian Barnes
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful… — Zora Neale Hurston
It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they… — Suzanne Collins
I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever… — David Thewlis
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around… — Larry McMurtry
He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you… — Nora Roberts
Sorry' he said. 'No, I'm sorry.' 'What are you sorry for?' 'Rattling on like a mad old cow. I'm sorry, I'm tired, bad day, and… — David Nicholls
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a Chinaman in Shanghai.… — Astrid Lindgren
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and… — Franz Kafka
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people.… — George R. R. Martin

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