The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm. β Thomas Beecham
The rattan basket criticizes the palm leaf basket, still both are full of holes. β Filipino Proverbs
Touch me βtil my ribs become piano keys, βtil there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs. β Andrea Gibson
Street's disciple, my raps are trifle.
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. β Nas
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. β Benjamin Franklin
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. β George Eliot
Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . . β Pablo Neruda
The rattan basket criticizes the palm-leafed bag, yet both are full of holes. β Filipino Proverbs
Short Rattle Quotes
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. β Jerry Lee Lewis
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, What's it for? β Robert Fulghum
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. β George Orwell
You can't just rattle it off like a demented parrot. β Angie Sage
I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. β Lisa Marie Presley
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. β Georg Buchner
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. β Howard Koch
The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. β Bob Dylan
Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around. β Tom Wolfe
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. β John F. Boyes
Rattlesnake Quotes
One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. β Billy Sunday
A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves. β E. Stanley Jones
After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake. β Elvis Presley
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants. β Jim Fowler
I don't know about you, but rattlesnake sounds pretty damn good right now. β Joe Teti
If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. β William S. Burroughs
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? β Elizabeth Moon
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes. β Rebecca Lim
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. β Josh Billings
Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar. β George Meredith
You could be great. You could rattle the stars. You could do anything if only you dared. β Sarah J. Maas
Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets. β Alistair Cooke
And then I am going to rattle the stars. β Sarah J. Maas
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. β Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes. β Ray Bradbury
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. β Leonid Brezhnev
The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next. β Harold Wilson
Serendipity is putting a quarter in the gumball machine and having three pieces come rattling out instead of one-all red. β Peter H. Reynolds
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello? β Bill Watterson
Normal people terrify me, because they haven't had enough problems in their life to know how to handle problems when they come up. Something little happens and they snap. But being from a dysfunctional family means nothing rattles me. Hey once you've driven a drunken father to moms' parole hearing, what else is there? β Christopher Titus
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. β Red Adair
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass
It's the American way. β Toby Keith
Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones. β John Facenda
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? β Danny Devito
All the jarring, rattling and clanking, spurting and hissing of the moving train of the train dissolved in the distance into something that was half a sob and half a sigh. β R.K. Narayan
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. β John Lennon
Freedom, Truth, Honour Β you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other. β Hunter S. Thompson
Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be! β Rosa Luxemburg
I think it's just really made me appreciate life more. I've known people die before that and I was really rattled by it but when it hit so close to home ... it was just so different. I just thought about what I really wanted to do. I want to be a pro surfer and that's what I'm going to do. β Mick Fanning
Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up oneβs ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall. β Franz Kafka
Amusement should be used to do us good βlike a medicineβ: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle. β Charles Spurgeon
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. β Jonathan Carroll
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. β Harold Larwood
As I see it, I'm just getting better and better as a rider - physically and mentally. I'm as motivated as I ever was. I enjoy it as much as I ever did. When you're a good rider on a good day, the bike doesn't rattle and bounce. You're smooth. Even if it's rough you can find a way to make the bike float. β Cadel Evans
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. β D. H. Lawrence
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. β Evelyn Glennie
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. β Douglas MacArthur
No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout. β Benjamin Disraeli
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. β Tarryn Fisher
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one canβt see--thatβs my idea of happiness. β Henry James
TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside. β Hedda Hopper
Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'... β Bob Dylan
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. β Samuel Johnson
My mum had a cousin that had played when he was younger. When I showed an interest in drumming, he showed me how to mummy-daddy roll and that set me up for a bit. And to be honest, it's all about the sound, the noise, the rattle and hum. Who wouldn't want to make a fantastic noise with drums and cymbals?! β Al Murray
The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life! β Konrad Zuse
You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts. β Hilary Mantel
George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent." β Rick Riordan
The sky is changed,-and such a change! O night And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. β Lord Byron
We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused. β Dawn Staley
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man. β Big Joe Turner
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