Shelf Quotes
294 quotes by 259 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The future has no shelf life
— Warren G. Bennis
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Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices…
— Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
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The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little…
— James Lane Allen
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It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done…
— Princess Diana
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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play…
— Thornton Wilder
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
— Philip Larkin
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.'…
— J D Salinger
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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
— Anne McCaffrey
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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with…
— Robert Burns
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf.…
— Yehuda Berg
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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just…
— Jonathan Haidt
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A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential…
— Susan Hill
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As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy…
— Thomas S. Monson
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A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
— Edward Abbey
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I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
— Robert Bloch
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Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can…
— Jim Rohn
Who Wrote These Shelf Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 294 Shelf Quotes, led by these top contributors: