Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history,… — William Lane Craig
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf. — Ben Whishaw
The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14… — Lars Ulrich
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets. — Joan Jett
For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow… — James Dwight Dana
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a… — Martin Lindstrom
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack. — Alexander Fleming
I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas,… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. — John Mortimer
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman… — Washington Irving
If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it. — Kris Carr
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the… — Alberto Manguel
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that… — Yo-Yo Ma
Good music shouldn't have a shelf life. — Jessie Ware
If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily… — Sylvia Earle
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor… — Randall Munroe
Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day… — George Arthur Crump
I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies… — Dean Cain
If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like… — Mitch Albom
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every… — Janet Fitch
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and… — Jennifer Carpenter

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