Mine Shaft Quotes

7 quotes by 7 authors

• If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. — Jack Handey
• The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins… — Robertson Davies
• You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A… — John B. S. Haldane
• Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. — Galway Kinnell
• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should… — Paul Farmer
• One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,… — Garrison Keillor
• It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air,… — Walker Percy

Who Wrote These Mine Shaft Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 7 Mine Shaft Quotes as follows:

• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by Jack Handey
• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by Robertson Davies
• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by John B. S. Haldane
• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by Galway Kinnell
• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by Paul Farmer
• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by Garrison Keillor
• 1 Mine Shaft Quote by Walker Percy