Shelf Quotes

294 Shelf quotes by 259 unique authors

You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes,… — Cassandra Clare
It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery… — Maggie Stiefvater
Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in… — Amy Carmichael
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up. — Tom Hodgkinson
Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the… — Jerry Spinelli
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater
You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf"… — Jeaniene Frost
I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our… — Paulo Coelho
You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life. — Hunter S. Thompson
It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're… — Fuyumi Ono
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins
... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] — Anne Lamott
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
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image… — Zora Neale Hurston
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book,… — Evelyn Waugh
She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will… — Maggie Stiefvater
Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on… — Jack Gantos
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill… — Kim Harrison
You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to… — Diana Gabaldon
Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on… — Ilona Andrews
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf. — Derek Walcott
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with… — Pico Iyer
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. — Henry Miller
Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. "I'll find you something else to read. Catch." He had… — Cassandra Clare
Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back… — J.R.R. Tolkien

Who Wrote These Shelf Quotes

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