Shelf Quotes

294 quotes by 259 authors

If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and… — Joshua Foer
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. — Debbie Harry
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. — Helen Hunt
It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you… — Joyce Meyer
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf? — Sarah Jessica Parker
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. — James Cash Penney
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. — Ezra Pound
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going… — David Ogden Stiers
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting… — Jack Welch
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on… — Kate Winslet
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. — Frank Zappa
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. — Charles Dickens
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But… — Katherine Paterson
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is… — Finley Peter Dunne
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. — Anne Sexton
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school,… — Katherine Applegate

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