I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker. — Michael McIntyre Copy Share Image
It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection,… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's nice to always have a job and not be floating out in the ether waiting for whatever the next big thing… — Mary Elizabeth Ellis Copy Share Image
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Day spins a gorgeous adventure in A Touch of Crimson that combines gritty, exciting storytelling with soaring lyricism. Adrian is my… — Angela Knight Copy Share Image
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's… — William Everson 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
A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the… — Raymond Simard Copy Share Image
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?..… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical disabilities, but instead of going to the… — Lester Roloff 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
What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
I know how it is to grind, I know how it is to get up at 4 in the morning and do… — Cormega Copy Share Image
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