Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. — Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off… — Jodi Picoult
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will… — Robert W. Service
When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy… — J R Ward
Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that… — Garth Stein
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted,… — Hilary McKay
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes… — Alberto Manguel
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them… — Sara Zarr
All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days… — Maggie Stiefvater
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp… — Haruki Murakami
Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential.… — Maria V. Snyder
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a… — Anne Fadiman
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know… — Annie Dillard
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases.… — E. Lockhart
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden… — Holly Black
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and… — Jennifer Haigh
They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing.… — Kristin Hannah
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the… — Roger Waters
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them,… — Aleksandar Hemon
I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better. — Buddy Wakefield
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom… — Anne Lamott
Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just… — Elizabeth Gilbert
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them… — Stefan Zweig
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the… — Deborah Lawrenson
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Who Wrote These Shelf Quotes

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