#rattling

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

#against #author #birds #chickens #dried

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

#control #everybody #face #finished #hurt

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them. ↗

— Howard Koch

#live #nation #neighbors #peace #rattling

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

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#little town #rattling #streets #sunset #through

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

#bowled #bowling #cricket #dark #down

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#airport #anywhere #bed #going #i

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

#because #cheap #comes #everywhere #food

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#cage #existence #hollering #human #keep

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#i #instruments #into #kids #little