I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build… — Mitchell Reiss Copy Share Image
After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read. — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once… — Jeffrey Brown Copy Share Image
Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
In my office, I have the creative things that kids have made for me over the years. The nice thing about the… — Mitchel Resnick Copy Share Image
“Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our… — John Mark Green Copy Share Image
For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy… — John Romaniello Copy Share Image
Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites. — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but… — David Conyers Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
