An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon.… — Robert E. Vardeman Copy Share Image
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
“The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins 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
“They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them;… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to… — Gemma Halliday Copy Share Image
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under… — Edna O'Brien 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
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences...good or bad ...and you need them, but it would… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location… — Jack Tretton Copy Share Image
Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
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