She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“People like to be shown around archives. I don’t know why. I’m in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with… — V.T. Davy Copy Share Image
Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous:… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Your mom isn’t going to let me step foot inside this place. I’ve seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real… — Catherine Crier Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image