Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been… — George Arthur Crump Copy Share Image
I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning… — Feist Copy Share Image
I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better. — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I bristle at the implication that only with the help of a Big Six editor does a novel lose its self-indulgent aspects.… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life. — Bella Freud Copy Share Image
Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
