Shaft Quotes

62 quotes by 60 authors

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. — Samuel Johnson
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft. — Jerry Reed
My daily Nespresso coffee, an unexpected shaft of sunlight through the window on a winter's day, my bargain Missoni sunglasses (70 percent off!) — Sophie Kinsella
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then… — Terry Pratchett
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft:… — Aeschylus
It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world. — Metrodorus of Chios
Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft — John Coltrane
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an… — Hilary Mantel
Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's shaft has smitten,… — George Horace Lorimer
I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx.… — Zahi Hawass
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to… — Edmund Waller
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
At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're… — Charlie LeDuff
Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.… — Pope Francis
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist.… — Jeffrey Wright

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