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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
Chris Van Allsburg
Inside
Write
Rattling
Head
Around
Still
Left
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum
Rattling
Cage
Existence
Human
Hollering
Bars
Keep
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
War
Good
History
Peace
Argument
Reading
Rattling
Makes
Poor
Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.
Brian Gleeson
Time
Best
Kind
Rattling
Head
Developing
Idea
Over
Like
Around
Stories
Certain
Acting
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
Me
Noise
Value
Smell
Birds
Once
About
Dried
Rattling
He
Wrote
Were
Chickens
Author
Wall
Unexpected
Taught
Against
Henry
Flowers
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. Lawrence
Freedom
Men
Rattling
Unconscious
Most
Always
Shout
Chains
Until we make campaigns affordable, then we're going to have too many members of Congress out rattling the cup with special interest groups.
Dick Durbin
Congress
Too
Members
Out
Rattling
Until
Make
Cup
Campaigns
Affordable
Going
Interest
Then
Special
Special Interest
Special Interest Groups
Many
Groups
I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
Eddie Vedder
Music
Soul
Rebellion
Parents
Affection
Gone
Babysitter
Nine
Windows
Onto
Rattling
Had
Around
Rock
Shelves
Were
Began
Shook
Roll
Next
Exploration
Turntable
Aggression
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sunset
Through
Rattling
Town
Little
Little Town
Streets
At a party in L.A., I met this middle-aged gentleman who I was talking to for ages when I asked, 'So, what do you do?' Turns out I was speaking to legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who worked on Michael Jackson's hits. And there was little old me rattling on - I was so embarrassed.
Elliot Cowan
Music
Me
You
Old
Gentleman
Party
Met
Embarrassed
Out
Rattling
Talking
Michael
Hits
Jackson
Legendary
Middle-Aged
Little
Worked
Asked
Ages
Producer
Turns
Speaking
Who
At the premiere for 'Leave It to Beaver,' I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I'm wondering, 'What do I do?' So I had to think, 'OK, calm down, one person at a time.' Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.
Erika Christensen
Time
Good
Calm
Down
Think
Everything
OK
Carpet
Kind
Rattling
Had
Red
Red Carpet
Name
Beaver
Calm Down
Said
Leave
Were
Walking
Person
Did
Wondering
Screaming
Afterwards
Really
Premiere
Publicist
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
Evelyn Glennie
Amazing
Walk
Types
Kids
Tops
Spinning
Rattling
Instruments
Store
Little
Things
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
Me
Game
Dark
Down
Cricket
Mine
Dreamed
Spinning
Rattling
Bowling
Real
Heard
Balls
Going
Stop
Sent
Them
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
Howard E. Koch
Peace
Nation
Live
Neighbors
Rattling
Wants
Them
Keep
Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
Jeffrey Kluger
Job
Exacerbate
Fine
Inside
Prevent
Rattling
Football
Head
Since
Protecting
Around
Brain
May
Which
Against
Little
Them
Helmet
Skull
Even
Martin Skrtel is good at rattling the opposing centre-forward.
Paul Scholes
Good
Opposing
Martin
Rattling
Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.
Paul Theroux
Needs
Corruption
Spend
Bite
Television
Angle
Rattling
Excitement
Days
Talking
Sound
Sound Bite
Five
Train
Endlessly
Cannot
Film
Railway
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
Susan Orlean
You
Experience
Car
Promise
Entire
Rattling
Contact
Come
Used
Company
Based
Buying
I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'
Will Ferrell
Book
Sometimes
Wife
Minority
Everyone
OK
Rattling
Like
House
Read
Go
Off
Just
Sweden
Swedish