Shelf Quotes

294 quotes by 259 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens — Anne McCaffrey
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
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
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
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
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
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. — Robert Bloch
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

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