Rattle Quotes

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound.

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 of someone who won't go?

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

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 your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

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 backed down.

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.