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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. -- George Orwell
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. -- Chris Van Allsburg
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. -- Thomas Hardy
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. -- Kate Mosse
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' -- Robert Fulghum
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. -- Howard W. Koch
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. -- D. H. Lawrence
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. -- Evelyn Glennie
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite. -- Paul Theroux
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
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
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, 'OK, I can just read a book.' -- Will Ferrell
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
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
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
Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind. -- Michael Specter
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
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
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
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 stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen. -- Hilary Mantel
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 came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet. -- Benjamin Banneker
At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed. -- Elliot Cowan
War makes rattling good history. -- Thomas Hardy
Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing. -- Ilka Chase
Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference. -- Lysa TerKeurst
The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect. -- Rand Paul
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head -- Chris Van Allsburg
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth. -- Chris Colfer
There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there. -- Dan Bejar
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. -- Howard W. Koch
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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
In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence. -- William Shakespeare
The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life! -- Konrad Zuse
Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red. -- Peter H. Reynolds
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
The drawers in my mind are rattling to break open. Memories. Theories. Whispers and sensations. I shove them off a cliff. -- Tahereh Mafi
she prays to feel as powerful as she might if God sang silentwords into her ear and answeredall the rattling questions now -- Beth Morey
What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom -- Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
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
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. -- John Donne
If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed. -- Darren Shan
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
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born. -- Dee Hock
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 illusions. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The rattling thunderbolt hath but his clap, the lightning but his flash, and as they both come in a moment, so do they both end in a minute. -- John Lyly
The beating of drums, which delights young writers who serve a party, sounds to him who does not belong to the party line like a rattling of chains, and excites sympathy rather than admiration. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 don't have beavers big enough to sound like that. -- Nora Roberts
We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves. -- Tarryn Fisher

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