Shaft Quotes

62 Shaft quotes by 60 unique authors

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 one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’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
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the… — Sarah Waters
It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from… — Henry James
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
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew… — Terry Pratchett
A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells… — Elwyn Brooks White
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths,… — Virginia Woolf
But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a… — Sonya Sones
For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through… — Carson McCullers
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room… — J D Salinger
Though I am young, and cannot tell Either what Death or Love is well, Yet I have heard they both bear darts, And both do… — Ben Jonson

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