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Quotes About Rattle

Then something leapt out of the lamp in a blue flash and shook me till my teeth rattled, and I tried to pull my hands off, but they were stuck, and I screamed, or a scream was torn from my throat, for I didn't recognize it, but heard it soar and quaver in the air like a violently disembodied spirit.
~ Sylvia Plath
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song, Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long But at my back in a cold blast I hear The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear
~ T.S. Eliot
Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.
~ Henning Mankell
That's a compliment, said Gertrude. I put all the compliments I receive into a little money-jug that has a slit in the side. I shake them up and down, and they rattle. There are not many yet - only two or three. (Chapter 6)
~ Henry James
I think that grace and love always rattle people.
~ Rob Bell
As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.* * The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.
~ Terry Pratchett
it to the bottom. It clattered and rattled all the way down
~ Carolyn Brown
Footsteps out of the room. The side and rattle of a kitchen drawer. Lounds had covered many murders committed in kitchens where things are handy. Police reporting can change forever your view of kitchens…
~ Thomas Harris
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.
~ Lewis Carroll
Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.
~ Oliver Cromwell
The fanatics and the bombers do not represent a resurgence of unreformed, fundamentalist Islam, but its death rattle.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
He grasped him in his two hands and ground and rattled him until the dung was forced out of him. The ford grew foul with his droppings.
~ Thomas Kinsella
Breslow!' Stein's voice was so loud that it made the thin hardboard walls of the dressing room rattle as they echoed back the sound of it. 'Breslow!' It was more like a cry for help than a threat. 'Breslow!' shouted Stein again. He was beginning to realize that Max Breslow controlled a thousand Führers.
~ Len Deighton
They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night. The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. A rising wind made some of the windows rattle.
~ Oscar Wilde
Mr Keeble stopped after making his announcement, and had to rattle his keys in his pocket in order to acquire the necessary courage to continue.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But the shrieking went on and on, primal, almost glad—this protest was righteous. I couldn't make up my mind whether the baby was male or female; the only certainties were near baldness and incandescent rage. The kid didn't like its blanket, or its rattle, or the lap it was sat on, or the world . . . the time had come to demand quality.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
No, this mother purled about her duties like a bubbling brook, and any number of stones hurled at her eddies sank with a harmless rattle to her bed.
~ Lionel Shriver
I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music...
~ Unknown
Facts seemed to run around and rattle in his head like dried peas, and then suddenly to form a convincing pattern.
~ Philip Zaleski
Museums suck," said Billy. The bus rattled along between tan fields. "Right?" said Charlie. "History," said Higgins. "Shit like that.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
The Glazert rattled in its wide bed, wriggling down the valley floor;
~ Unknown