Shelf Quotes
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Shelf Quotes & Sayings
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If they put you back on the shelf, in exchange for someone else, don't worry.
Someone better's coming along. — Pleasefindthis
Someone better's coming along. — Pleasefindthis
The high shelf
Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm,
Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end. — John Wain
Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm,
Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end. — John Wain
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 to burst into new life.
— Susan Hill
I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me. — Robert W. Service
A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along the wall,
Beside my bed, will mourn for me. — Robert W. Service
Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.
— Saji Ijiyemi
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
— Frank Zappa
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
— William Everson
Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it
— Ralph Yarborough
Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again.
— Bell Hooks
Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.
— Chris Brogan
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes
— Andrew Heller
Blakewood had a collection of miniature furniture with Scotty dogs painted on it, arranged on a semicircular shelf int he corner. Yeah. He was queer.
— Jordan Castillo Price
Your mom isn't going to let me step foot inside this place. I've seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.
— Tori Amos
We exist in the world of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
— Victor Hugo
Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.
— Maggie Stiefvater
When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
— Dan Aykroyd
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne
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
We both know you can't split a bookstore. (I don't even share shelf space.)
— Mary Jane Hathaway
It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry in your heart.
— Terry Goodkind
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 year later.
— Martin Lindstrom
A love ethic presupposes that everyone has the right to be free, to live fully and well.
— Bell Hooks
You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.
— Hunter S. Thompson
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
— Derek Walcott
Like my body - I may not control the expiration date, but I can certainly influence the quality of the shelf life.
— Gay Hendricks
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
— Sam Ewing
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
— Philip Larkin
Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.
— Bell Hooks
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
— Martin Niemoller
To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.
— Bell Hooks
Everyone has a home but me.
— Gloria Steinem
on the Internet, shelf space is infinite,
— John Seabrook
Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf ... you have to get on your knees to get it.
— Robert Collier
Think how quiet a book is on a shelf, he said, just sitting there, unopened. Then think what happens when you open it.
— Ali Smith
Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
— Charles Duhigg
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In seventh grade ... I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
— Beverly Cleary
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!
— Brittany Snow
Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
— Scott McNealy
The love for books is a paradise.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
— Alberto Manguel
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
— Sharon Horgan
From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.
— Alfred Austin
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf,
— Albert Sabin
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
— Sarah Jessica Parker
All awakening to love is spiritual awakening
— Bell Hooks
copy instead of finding the book on the shelf. And the finding is half the fun. Browsing on either side, above and below, that is the joy of it.
— Mary Jane Hathaway
Floor: the world's biggest shelf.
— Frankie Rose
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
— John Mortimer
Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.
— Kenneth E. Collier
You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
— Carly Simon
Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.
— Bell Hooks
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.
— Jim Rohn
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.
— Daniel Quinn
Secrets have a shelf life.
— Deb Caletti
The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.
— Bell Hooks
I was raised in a world where I had thousands of friends, each one waiting for me on a shelf every day.
— Elise Kova
It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.
— Doreen Orion
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
— Ezra Pound
If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning.
— Bell Hooks
Do not judge a man by the books on his shelf that he has read but by the books on his shelf that he does not reread.
— Anonymous
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
— Princess Diana
Your feelings have a natural shelf life.
— Deborah Sandella
Limit your day to what you feel comfortable with doing - put the rest on the shelf - for further consideration down the line.
— Art Hochberg
He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf.
— Tom Franklin
After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.
— Jose Andres
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
— Bella Freud
Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.
— Don Bluth
I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.
— Maria Muldaur
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.
— Maggie Stiefvater
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.
— Henry Rollins
I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.
— Buddy Wakefield
A book in hand is worth ten on the shelf
— Anonymous
Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.
— Martha Stewart
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.
— Henry Miller
Obituary: He/she is survived by his/her Want-to-Read/Currently-Reading Goodreads shelf
— Brian Alan Ellis
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.
— Bell Hooks
Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf.
— Chris Cleave
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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
The shelf life of any great love is fifteen years. After that you need a serious preservative, which can seriously harm your health.
— Marisha Pessl
It was the fact that she was in every piece, in every corner, on every shelf. She was everywhere, reminding me how much in love with her I was.
— Fisher Amelie