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Shelves Quotes by Anne Fadiman
- Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our…
- It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest…
- My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their…
- My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the…
- ...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a…
More Shelves Quotes
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — George Clooney
- The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — 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… — Rudyard Kipling
- Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. — Unknown Author