My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.
Quotes about disused (5 Quotes)
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.
One guy had this can't-miss idea to go dig up old coins at the site of former disused government mints, and he just needed a bit of money to get started ... some guy had an idea for an indoor amusement park.
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word Those old odd corners of an empty heart For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.