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409 Shelves quotes by 344 unique authors

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Unknown Author
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential… — Susan Hill
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy… — Thomas S. Monson
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his… — Elwyn Brooks White
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought… — George Washington
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. — Robert Bloch
Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can… — Jim Rohn
I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure… — Stan Lee
I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach… — Og Mandino
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida
It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. — Billy Collins
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues… — James Gleick
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. — Walter Rauschenbusch
Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and… — Catherine Crier
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of… — Jesse James Garrett
Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves… — Thelma Golden
If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So… — Lee Kuan Yew
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the… — John Haynes Holmes
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them… — Lewis Buzbee
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of… — George Steiner
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just… — Gilbert Highet
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really… — Michael Nesmith

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