Shaft Quotes

62 Shaft quotes by 60 unique authors

Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes… — Harry Anderson
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad
As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time. — Rita Wilson
What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft… — Henry Cuyler Bunner
The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed… — William C. Bryant
A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately. — Josef von Sternberg
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. — Ray Bradbury
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
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a… — Walter Scott
I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots.… — Lee Trevino
The skyscraper style first advocated by Louis Sullivan - a tower of strongly vertical character with clear definitions among base, shaft, and crown - has… — Martin Filler
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids. — Hunter S. Thompson
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneâ€™s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneâ€™s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the… — Jenny Downham
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance… — John Grogan
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty… — J.R.R. Tolkien
B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into… — Tim Pratt
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams

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