Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden… — Javier Bardem
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the… — Sandra Bullock
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and… — Alan Alda
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. — Graydon Carter
An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have… — George Clooney
Technology has the shelf life of a banana. — Scott McNealy
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. — Unknown Author
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the… — Cesar Milstein
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama
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
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent… — Unknown Author
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet… — John Y. Campbell
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly… — Alexander Woollcott
Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it — Unknown Author
At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year. — Steve Coppell
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I… — Brittany Snow
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf. — Brian Eno
I love the scrapbooks, I have a shelf of scrapbooks fans give me - they're so sweet, so detailed! — Selena Gomez
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block,… — George Pelecanos
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance… — Philip Graham Ryken
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 steadfast loyalty and… — Nien Cheng
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy… — Unknown Author
The future has no shelf life — Warren G. Bennis

Who Wrote These Shelf Quotes

259 authors contributed a total of 294 Shelf Quotes, led by these top contributors: