Best Shelves Proverbs

409 Shelves quotes by 344 unique authors

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. — Debbie Harry
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award. — Helen Hunt
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book,… — Hilary Mantel
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter… — Hilary Mantel
It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you… — Joyce Meyer
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf? — Sarah Jessica Parker
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. — James Cash Penney
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. — Ezra Pound
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith
At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern… — Wilbur Smith
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going… — David Ogden Stiers
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting… — Jack Welch
I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe.… — Olivia Wilde
I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on… — Kate Winslet
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. — Frank Zappa
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. — Geoff Mulgan
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living… — Virginia Woolf
But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb
Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,… — Barbara Kingsolver
If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the… — Winston Churchill
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. — Charles Dickens
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But… — Katherine Paterson

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