Rumble Quotes

• Let's get ready to rumble!

  Michael Buffer

  Boxing, Ready

  Quoted in Newsday, 4 Feb. 1989

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• We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

  Drew Bundini Brown

  Butterfly, Men, Boxing

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• He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

  Pete Townshend

  Kings, Guitar, Links

  "Link Wray" by Garth Cartwright, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

  Muhammad Ali

  Strength, Sports, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

  Teresa Palmer

  Able, Streets, Feels

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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  Kate Winslet

  Dream, Peace, Passion

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• Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Glimpse, Causes

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

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• I had an uncle who had a car with a rumble seat, and I used to love to ride in that thing. I mentioned this to some kids, and they were like, "What are you even talking about?"

  Dick Van Dyke

  Uncles, Kids, Talking

  "Dick Van Dyke: Icon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Heart, Blessing, Dignity

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.51, B&H Publishing Group

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• Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.

  John Piper

  Ears, Faithfulness

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• Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.

  John Cena

  Winning, Accomplishment, Royal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

  Omar Khayyam

  Credit, Cash, Heed

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Sufistic Quatrains”, p.118, Omar Khayyam

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• ...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.

  S. E. Hinton

  Hurt, Fighting, Winning

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.80, Penguin

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• You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.

  S. E. Hinton

  Jazz, Knows

  S.E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.93, Penguin

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• The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

  Jean Rhys

  Sea, Sound, Rising

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• Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

  Ron Suskind

  Conviction, Furnaces

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.114, Broadway Books

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• Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

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• To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

  Ernest Becker

  Awareness, Terror

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• When the thunder rumbles,
  Now the age of gold is dead.
  When the dreams we've clung to
  Trying to stay young,
  Have left us parched and old instead.
  When my courage crumbles,
  When I feel confused and frail,
  When my spirit falters on decaying altars
  And my illusions fail --
  I go on right then.
  I go on again.
  I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
  I go on.
  If tomorrow tumbles
  And everything I love is gone,
  I will face regret all my days, and yet
  I will still go on.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Determination, Regret

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• Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot.” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Silence, Parent

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• Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

  Rumi

  Moving, Wind, Lightning

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• What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Voice, Shadow

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• Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.

  Thomas Sankara

  Eye, Feet, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

  Jean Little

  Dog, Eyebrows, Tails

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  James Earl Jones

  New York, Army, Rights

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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