Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

Potential has a shelf life. — Margaret Atwood
If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.... — Per Petterson
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos… — Glenn Beck
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… — Diane Setterfield
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my… — Keith Donohue
There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the… — Patrick Rothfuss
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I… — Tori Amos
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people… — Richard Scarry
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had… — Mark Helprin
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug.… — Diane Duane
My greatness does not extend to this shelf. — Victor Hugo
You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it… — Kurt Vonnegut
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. — Daniel Quinn
if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips,… — Joyce Rupp
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake… — Ray Bradbury
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. — Zora Neale Hurston
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately… — Deb Caletti
I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And… — Amy Tan
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all,… — Gail Carriger
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. — Barbara Kingsolver
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and… — John Berger
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.… — Theodore Roethke
I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf — Emily Dickinson
What's love? Something that lasts a week or a month and that's all you can except? Or is it just that some loves have a… — Katherine Applegate

Who Wrote These Shelf Quotes

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