“ I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I did go through a Goth thing, but that was a long time ago. I just like artists that shake it up, that piss people off or make people think or rattle the cage somehow. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
- 670
“ The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart. ”
- Henry Mitchell- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains. ”
- Alexander Cockburn- Copy
- 3.6K
“ If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. ”
- Chip Brown- Copy
- 715
“ Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ”
- John Boyes- Copy
- 3.2K
“ To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, "What's it for?". ”
- Fulghum Robert- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other. ”
- John Christian Morgenstern- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. ”
- John Lennon- Copy
- 3.1K
“ There has not been one Person bit by a Rattle-Snake in the Colony of Georgia. I have seen several of these Snakes which were kill'd at Frederica, the largest above two Yards long, the Belly white, and the Back of a brown Colour; they seem to be of the Viper Kind, and are of a strong Smell, somewhat like Musk… ”
- Francis Moore- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Small debts are like small gun shots; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!.... All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill! ”
- Mary Mapes Dodge- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. ”
- E. L. Konigsburg- Copy
- 419
“ The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion. ”
- Douglas Hofstadter- Copy
- 776
“ Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty — shake them and they would rattle like gourds… ”
- Kenneth Hildebrand- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. ”
- John Donne- Copy
- 49
“ He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover… ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree… but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement… that requires a heroism which is transcendent. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 678
“ Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn… ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
- 826
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