Rattling Quotes

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

Inside, Stick, Bucket

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.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Small, Danger

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

Men, Freedom, Chains

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

Peace, Good, History

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 that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
Susan Orlean

Experience, Car, Used

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

Human, Keep, Existence

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.
Red Adair

Best, Smile, Hurt

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 them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
Jeffrey Kluger

Job, Football, May

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.
Jamie Oliver

Good, Food, Nobody

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.
Harold Larwood

Game, Real, Down

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

Amazing, Kids, Walk

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.
Chuck Jones

Once, Against, Value

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

Peace, Live, Keep

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

Through, Sunset, Town

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

Around, Write, Left

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.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Home, Him, Made

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

Write, Actually, Bed

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