If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high… — Harry Chapin Copy Share Image
Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand -… — Oveta Culp Hobby Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia,… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'.… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
