Best Shelves Lines
409 Shelves quotes by 344 unique authors
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I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
— Ben Whishaw
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I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14…
— Lars Ulrich
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Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
— Joan Jett
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For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if…
— James Patrick Kelly
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Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?
— Aaron Paul
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Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher…
— Emily Henderson
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow…
— James Dwight Dana
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Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a…
— Martin Lindstrom
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Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.
— T. B. Joshua
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Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
— Alexander Fleming
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I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas,…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people…
— Lynne Truss
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
— John Mortimer
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On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer…
— William Safire
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I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way…
— Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
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Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the…
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman…
— Washington Irving
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Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had…
— William Ernest Henley
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It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers…
— John Wooden
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If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.
— Kris Carr
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In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the…
— Alberto Manguel
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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