Shelf Quotes

294 quotes by 259 authors

I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure… — Stan Lee
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble daysâ€”the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyismâ€”was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. — Walter Rauschenbusch
Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and… — Catherine Crier
If you donâ€™t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid societyâ€¦So… — Lee Kuan Yew
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really… — Michael Nesmith
The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed;… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a… — Jason Epstein
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mindâ€”like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. — Renata Adler
If the book is finishedâ€”published and on the shelfâ€”I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will… — Antonya Nelson
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you. — Princess Diana
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as… — Robert Carlyle
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family -… — Calvin Trillin
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf. — Sam Ewing
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for… — Mike Figgis
Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer. — Jason Jordan
Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf,… — Roy Ayers
A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and… — John Heilpern
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good… — David Quammen
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf, — Albert Sabin

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