Famous quotes containing the words side and/or shaft:
“Telephone poles were matchsticks, put there to be snapped off at a whim. Dogs trotting across the road were suddenly big trucks. Old ladies turned into movingvans. Everything was too bright, but very funny and made for my delight. And about half a mile from my long liquid breakfast I turned carefully down a side street and parked, and sat beaming happily through the tannic fog for about an hour, remembering how witty we all had been, how handsome and talented ... [ellipsis in original]”
—M.F.K. Fisher (19081992)
“Its hard to tell you how I managed it.
When I saw the shaft had me by the coat,
I didnt try too long to pull away,
Or fumble for my knife to cut away,
I just embraced the shaft and rode it out....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)