#rattle

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#breath #death #freedom #rattle

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

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. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#asked #audience #books #boston #furniture

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

#allow #already #also #around #begin

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they're hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#certain #characters #done #emotional #hyper

I try not to get too rattled about things that aren't that important - there's a different outburst for when the kids are reaching for a knife in the kitchen versus the reaction I have when they just won't stop talking. And my wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

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