Rattling Quotes

Timber faller. It`s the most dangerous, aside from combat, that you can ever have. There are a lot of ways you can get killed. A tree can "barber chair" - come back on you. "Widowmakers," which are dead limbs, can fall out. You can`t predict what a tree will do sometimes. You have to watch sawdust and make sure the tree`s not rotting. If it is, it might split on you. It`s dangerous, it`s hot - it`s hard work. You have a big chain a saw that`s rattling away and bouncing around, and you`re slipping and sliding and standing on land that`s sometimes nearly straight up and down. It can get crazy. On the other hand, I never wanted to work in an office under fluorescent lights. - On the toughest job he ever had.

They have learned the lesson of North Korea. Once you have nuclear weapons, the US saber-rattling becomes much less. After all, with North Korea you have a genuine madman in control of a country with the bomb and yet we don`t hear very much about them at all.

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.

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

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