One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something… — Emily Henderson Copy Share Image
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically.… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this… — Aaron Karo Copy Share Image
When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A generation who is only good at putting books on shelves as decorations.” — Muradous Copy Share Image
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can. — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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