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If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you. — Terry Pratchett

I am in Waterstones looking at all the chick lit rubbish on the shelves. In a fit of pique, I turn them round so they are facing the wrong way. — Maddie Grigg

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones. — Chris Brogan

What do you seek in these shelves? — Robin Sloan

Books are sacred wisdom. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I imagine I'm a very unusual guy to date. You know, I've got toys on the shelves, and I've got the cars. — Matthew Reilly

What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves. — Patricia Marx

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer. — Lemony Snicket

The book-shelves were her darling treasure, She rarely seemed the time to measure While she could read alone. — Charlotte Bronte

The future has no shelf life — Warren G. Bennis

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves. — Thomas S. Monson

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie

Darcy staring handsomely out from the shelves. Well, Colin Firth, really. 'The face that launched a thousand bookmarks, — Victoria Connelly

I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together. — David Levithan

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves. — Neal Stephenson

I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall. — Kathryn Harrison

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall. — John Burnside

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women. — Lisa Randall

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

Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books. — Alfred Bester

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them. — Bernie Taupin

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves. — Lemony Snicket

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb

I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape. — Maggie Stiefvater

You wanna go build some shelves with me? — Alexandra Bracken

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves! — Rita Ora

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff

About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago. — Larry McCleary

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. — Aldous Huxley

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters. — Michael Connelly

On the shelves along the wall my stacks. Jumbled and worn. Pagers curled and stained. Spines creased and cracked. — Lucas Klauss

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves. — Paul Fleischman

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. — Terry Pratchett

Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs. — Elizabeth Brundage

When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God. — Sully Tarnish

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them. — Clive Sinclair

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness. — Ingrid Schaffner

I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker. — Michael McIntyre

He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Eglow, Eglonitz - here we are, Egria. It — Arthur Conan Doyle

Anyone who had ever worked in a record store knew that Tuesdays were the busiest day, when the new releases hit the shelves. — Stephen Witt

Happy endings are reserved strictly for the fiction shelves of bookstores — Holly Bourne

She saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; — Lewis Carroll

The number of books increased on the shelves neatly made for him by one of his carpenter friends. The room began to look like a home. — Maxim Gorky

I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens! — Ibrahim Ibrahim

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. — Colum McCann

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

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year. — Steve Coppell

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. — Will Thomas

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. — Anne Sexton

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf — Emily Dickinson

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. — Elisabeth Marbury

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong

Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room. — Lisa Kleypas

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it. — Beverly Cleary

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 are themselves. — John Wooden

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. — Tahereh Mafi

She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves. — Barry Lyga

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life. — Noah Baumbach

Photos sat on the piano and shelves bulged with books, testament to a life well lived. — Louise Penny

Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf ... you have to get on your knees to get it. — Robert Collier

Peeking through the window, he saw empty shelves. Strange how a place so associated with one's life could vanish so fast. — John J. Kelley

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people. — Tristram Stuart

All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was a talking book. — Sofia Samatar

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove

Rows upon rows of books, lining built-in shelves that stretched from the floor to the ceiling. — Michelle Hodkin

Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts. — T. B. Joshua

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law. — T. S. Eliot

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. — Miley Cyrus

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf. — Brian Eno

The barrels of salted fish were in the pantry, and yellow cheeses were stacked on the pantry shelves. Then — Laura Ingalls Wilder

If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1200 bucks for it. — Jack Tretton

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America. — Martha Stewart

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books. — Beth Cato

Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great ... And we'd love some shelves over there. — Jim Gaffigan

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. — Michael Dirda

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. — Victoria Schwab

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. — David Levithan

The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. — Sterling Hayden

What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other. — Colum McCann

You are a shelf of books without the pages. — Gabrielle Aplin

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. — Billy Collins

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. — Geoff Mulgan

Shelves without books were lonely and just plain wrong. — Ruta Sepetys

There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes. — Arundhati Roy

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. — William Wordsworth

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. — John Milton

Facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. — Leslie Jamison

I'm getting tempted to visit the Bookhouse myself. No telling what else you'd find on those shelves. — Mark Frost

Technology has the shelf life of a banana. — Scott McNealy

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. — Sherwood Smith

Unless a convention of anarchists visited the library yesterday, most books ought to be in their rightful places. — Evelyn Skye

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbon

There are not enough books here. The sight of the bare shelves shames me. What have I done? — Linda Grant

They folded clothes, dusted shelves, polished swords; except for the periodic murder attempts, they were perfect hosts. — Will Wight

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else. — Jimi Hendrix

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr