Bookshelf Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. — Theodore Bikel
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so… — Chris Van Allsburg
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its state-of-the-art level of… — Carl Safina
You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at… — Joel Salatin
More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something,… — Phyllis Rose
Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into the past and… — Steven Saylor
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then,… — Jonathan Evison
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe… — Alan Bennett
I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose… — Sara Sheridan
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. — Dag Hammarskjold
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. — Chris Abani
My father always says, â€˜Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.â€™ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I… — Emilia Clarke
I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard… — Maggie Stiefvater
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. — Justin Cronin
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something. — Anthony Mackie
You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army… — Ryan Adams
My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub… — Michael Easton
The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become — Sheridan Hay
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with… — Christopher Bollen
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Bookshelf Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 42 Bookshelf Quotes, led by these top contributors: