#rattle

I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script. ↗

— Sherry Stringfield

#big #big things #car #gas #get

The guard looked down at the scarlet bloodstains blooming on his chest. He appeared to think of something that he needed to say, but as his lips began to form the words, his knees gave up the strain of supporting his ruined bulk. He collapsed to the floor, his throat issuing a final sound like a bubbling casserole. ↗

— R.D. Ronald

#dying #death

Anything you strike, anything you shake or rattle, or just anything that can be picked up, and you can create a sound. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#create #just #picked #rattle #shake

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#i #just #off #piano #rattle

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#came #carter #crisis #did #down

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. ↗

— John Lennon

#clap #hands #jewelry #just #people

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#again #battlefield #crash #dreams #guns

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#get #i #keen #rattled #sea

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ↗