Ali Smith

When we meet a work of art, there's something about that encounter that isn't fixed in time, but rather, it unfixes time: the shaft opens. The past and present exist in the same moment, and we know, as beings, that we are connected. All the people who lived before us, all who will come after us, are connected in this moment.

Scottish Writer

Lee Trevino

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.

American Golfer

Ernie Els

When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you're feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.

South African Golfer

Mark Schlereth

Special teams get the shaft when most people talk football. Unless a kicker's bombing a game-winner or a return man is going the distance, that important third of the game is all but forgotten.

Ben Crenshaw

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.

American Athlete

Tony Finau

When your hands are cold, and you're hitting with old, low-quality irons - my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft - you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

George Crook

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.

American Soldier

When we was making a song called 'Bring Da Ruckus,' we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it.

American Musician

Powell Clayton

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

American Politician

Rita Wilson

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

American Actress

Refers to slender extending parts especially of tools or instruments.

Physical Objects

Shafts are usually straight and provide support or conveyance.

Typically Straight

Used for vertical passages underground, often in mines.

Below Ground

An informal phrase meaning to be treated unfairly.

Colloquial Usage

Sometimes it's used to describe social or professional exclusion.

Metaphorical Meaning

Describes a concentrated line of something intangible, like light.

Beam of Energy

Refers to vertical supports in architecture and construction.

Structural Support

Indicates long, pointed implements typically used in combat or hunting.

Weaponry

 By the way, there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain, called the corpus callosum. It's thicker in women. Following off from Helen yesterday, this is probably why women are better at multitasking. Because you are, aren't you? There's a raft of research, but I know it from my personal life.

Do schools kill...

 The ice in the ceiling was glowing blue and green because the sunlight from far above was shining through the ice and lighting it all up. Now, we couldn't understand why this cave was so much colder than Snow Dragon until we got to the end, and we found out why. There was a huge pit or shaft called a moulin

My glacier cave...

 That's where the body of a king is going to rest in eternity. So you've gone to all this trouble to create this incredible monument around the body of that person. It's pretty amazing. To house his mummy, huge chunks of granite were slid down a passage into the shaft

The Evolution of Ancient...

 just an individual component but an entire system so one manufacturer is improving an engine by starting with a piston that makes it lighter and then that allows the return spring to be thinner which then allows the shaft to be shorter and then the changes cascades

Design and future...

 complete advance that's getting mixed up into a mixture of soil and water and solution and then getting pulled up all the way to the conveyor belt and that conveyor belt then takes the material out to the shaft where it's dumped into

Why a Giant Machine Is...

 When my hand slips, I suddenly remember a miner I had met days before who had lost his grip and fell countless feet down that shaft. As I stand talking to you today, these men are still deep in that hole,

Lisa Kristine: Photos...

 and the water is just above freezing because of the extreme conditions divers have been unable to reach the cave source one diver lost his life attempting to explore the main shaft in

Record Cave Dive Leaves...

 slowly inexorably it spreads down through the shafts towards the deeper part of the nest