Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

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
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you… — C.S. Lewis
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a… — Henry Miller
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. — Alberto Manguel
It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest… — Anne Fadiman
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black… — Armistead Maupin
[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull… — Ray Bradbury
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some… — John Lithgow
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? — Christopher Paolini

Who Wrote These Shelf Quotes

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