Best Shelves Sayings
409 Shelves quotes by 344 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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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
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I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
— Robert Bloch
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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
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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
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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
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Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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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
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
— Billy Collins
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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
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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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