I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it. — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves. — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf. — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong 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
Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own… — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf,… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
“On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked.” — Lucas Klauss 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
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed,… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
At last some time for pleasure trips And do what you want to do The time to just take your time It's… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You can think whatever you want to and laugh, but I believe if I would have never learned to put my stuff… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year. — Steve Coppell Copy Share Image
I love the scrapbooks, I have a shelf of scrapbooks fans give me - they're so sweet, so detailed! — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it. — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image