Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

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
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 days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—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 don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…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 mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing. — Renata Adler
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will… — Antonya Nelson

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