#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

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#good #history #makes #peace #poor

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#head #i #i write #inside #left

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #chains #freedom #freest #most