Quotes About Shaft

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.

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 just like the men.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

In Hastor I have paid a good price to see one of these creatures and now I found myself in a position where I should very gladly pay a good deal more not to see one, but from the noise he was making in the shaft beneath me it appeared to me that he was determined that I should have a free show and he a free meal.

Hot April sunshine poured in through the open top of the old Caddy, shafts of it splattering into rainbows as they sliced through the facets of the spiderweb windshield.

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, 'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

screwing his eyes up against his own smoke. A shaft of wintry sunlight burst through a break in the clouds and illuminated the

In fact, I learned that the mystical word Puhpowee is used not only for mushrooms, but also for certain other shafts that rise mysteriously in the night.

I learned that the mystical word Puhpowee is used not only for mushrooms, but also for certain other shafts that rise mysteriously in the night.

The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

Buried in what he termed 'shaft graves', Schliemann uncovered the remains of the families

Time is like a well whose shaft goes down to death - to my death - to my perdition. The gulf of time: how I shudder to look down on time! My death is at its bottom and its dank breath mounts up and chills me.

snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...

Shaft' is a great country song.

A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

I am not the target. I am the archer. My shafts are tipped with truth and they stick deep.

The arguments against insanity fall through with a soft shirring sound; these are the sounds of dead voices on dead records floating down the broken shaft of memory. When I turn to you to ask if you remember, When I turn to you in our bed

who seemed to have grown his afro to new and previously unexplored heights, inspiring Norman Mailer to write that King looked like a man falling down an elevator shaft, "whoosh went the hair up from his head

A well hit golf shot is a feeling that goes up the shaft, right through your hands and into your heart.

There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.

He wore a white raincoat, looking as suave as Shaft at a New Orleans funeral.

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. So yeah, I was always a fan.