Book Quote by Helene Hanff

“He felt her relax as his fingers caressed her back and moved lower to her buttocks, slick, yet firm, beneath the water. "You're not…

— E.B. Brown

Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long…

— Daphne du Maurier

“There are some moments you feel like you'll remember forever. Rare, still moments when everything is NOW, as if everything has been stopped and…

— Simon Cheshire

I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear out of…

— Julia Stone

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

— Jessie Ware

It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what…

— Fuyumi Ono

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

— Henry Rollins

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

— Anne Lamott

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

— Michael Ignatieff

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a…

— Haruki Murakami

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

— Francis Collins

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

— John Greenleaf Whittier