Rattling Quotes

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

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 birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

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 tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

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 in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

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 negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

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; of loud noise, but little danger.

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 there are golden nuggets everywhere.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.