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Shaft Quotes (page 2)

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, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad. Virginia Woolf
As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe. She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the... Daphne du Maurier
George Eliot quote: "It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any..."
It’s an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease. George Eliot
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 was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. J. R. R. Tolkien
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 endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror. Carson McCullers
Knut Hamsun quote: "A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when..."
A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation. Knut Hamsun
Peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. 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 was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. J. R. R. Tolkien
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter... Emily Dickinson
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones. Evan Davis
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 shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out. George Crook
Rita Wilson quote: "As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time."
As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time. Rita Wilson
I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one. Ben Crenshaw
Powell Clayton quote: "In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed..."
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. Powell Clayton
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 heart that's broken! Walter Scott
Saku Koivu quote: "I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I..."
I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway. Saku Koivu

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