John Shaft Quotes

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

Richard Roundtree

#2. A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

Walter J. Phillips

#3. You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead.

J.D. Robb

#4. Every road has unexpected curves. We can allow them to interrupt our journey, while wishing they weren't there. Or, we can make adjustments, while all along continuing to move ahead. Ultimately, the choice is ours.

Charles F. Glassman

#5. You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Rachel McAdams

#6. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

John Dean

#7. Now 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 ...

John Geddes

#8. Love permeates all and energizes life.
Even evil has love. If not, she is dead.

Toba Beta

#9. I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

Howard Finster

#10. Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.

Mother Teresa

#11. Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

John Ruskin

#12. When he was made, the mould was broke," said Pete.

Jack London

#13. There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Lawrence Durrell

#14. Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft

John Coltrane

#15. What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.

Donna Lynn Hope

#16. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

John B. S. Haldane

#17. As long as your intention is pure, and you know what you're in it for, then you're alright. And I'm in it because I enjoy it. I take it seriously ... real seriously. I mean I could sit and talk all day about the music.

Trey Anastasio

#18. I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful ...

John Geddes

#19. The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.

Kathi Daley

#20. A stronger deterrent to infidelity even than love was the desire to maintain a stable household, a stress-free life.

Matthew Thomas