Shaft Quotes

62 Shaft quotes by 60 unique authors

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 babyâ€™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 Iâ€™d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after Iâ€™d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then Iâ€™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
I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Actually, I do happen to resemble a hallucination. Kindly note my silhouette in the moonlight." The cat climbed into the shaft of moonlight and wanted… — Mikhail Bulgakov
In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft. — Bill O'Reilly
When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the… — George Crook
I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway. — Saku Koivu
Like an arrow which leaves the shaft and like the rocket that leaves the ground, my heart is not mine anymore. I have given it… — Unknown Author
Fate has carried me Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce… — Troublemaker
In the dark I watched her fold for my stick and move Richard roundtree moment she said my d-ck was smooth. The shaft that she's… — Ryan Leslie
You're all...testicles, and no shaft! What happened to your shaft Robert? -Stinkmeaner — Boondocks
Mai? Asian chick? Likes to kick people? Yeah, last time I saw her, she was at the bottom of an elevator shaft with an SUV… — John Mcclane

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