Shelves Quotes

409 quotes by 349 authors

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about… — Sean Astin
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden… — Javier Bardem
I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life,… — Luke Bryan
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the… — Sandra Bullock
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and… — Alan Alda
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk. — Graydon Carter
An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have… — George Clooney
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its… — Max Delbruck
Technology has the shelf life of a banana. — Scott McNealy
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what… — Rudyard Kipling
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. — Andre Heller
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the… — Cesar Milstein
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something.… — Alfred Kazin
I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker. — Michael McIntyre
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent… — William Wardell
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet… — John Y. Campbell

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