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Tag Name "Rattling" (35)

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Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red.
Peter H. Reynolds
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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum
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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
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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
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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
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The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.
Cassandra Clare
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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
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There are too many Destroyer records to just start rattling them left them off, but they're there.
Dan Bejar
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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
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I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
Evelyn Glennie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
Kate Mosse
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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 looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.
Larry McMurtry
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Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
Lysa TerKeurst
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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
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The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect.
Rand Paul
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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
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War makes rattling good history.
Thomas Hardy
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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
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In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.
William Shakespeare
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