pointing to the rows of black spines on the shelves.

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

— Edith Wharton

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..

— Stanislaw Lem

...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his…

— E. Lockhart

It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when…

— Joyce Meyer

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

— Jessie Ware

It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what…

— Fuyumi Ono

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

— Henry Rollins

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

— Anne Lamott

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

— Michael Ignatieff

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a…

— Haruki Murakami

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

— John Greenleaf Whittier