One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she ducked out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I have a beautiful address book a friend gave me in 1966. I literally cannot open it again. Ever. It sits on… — Jerry Herman Copy Share Image
Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is… — Sylvia Earle 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
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new… — Val McDermid 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
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life… — Eric Dickerson Copy Share Image
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter,… — Roscoe Bartlett Copy Share Image
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
