Quotes about Shelves

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Votes: 6

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?' Votes: 6

Potential has a shelf life. Votes: 4

Technology has the shelf life of a banana. Votes: 4

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Votes: 4

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Votes: 4

Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts. Votes: 4

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. Votes: 4

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. Votes: 4

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Votes: 4

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. Votes: 4

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. Votes: 4

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens Votes: 4

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. Votes: 4

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. Votes: 4

Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging? Votes: 4

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what? Votes: 4

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. Votes: 4

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves. Votes: 4

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what. Votes: 4

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. Votes: 4

When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens. Votes: 4

What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves. Votes: 3

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. Votes: 2

I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves. Votes: 2

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. Votes: 2

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 nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis. Votes: 2

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life. Votes: 2

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. Votes: 2

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. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression. Votes: 2

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches. Votes: 2

I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying. Votes: 2

I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Votes: 2

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves. Votes: 2

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. Votes: 2

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, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945. Votes: 2

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted. Votes: 2

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly. Votes: 2

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 of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. Votes: 2

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. Votes: 2

When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months. Votes: 2

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies. Votes: 2

Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable. Votes: 2

I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect. Votes: 2

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?' Votes: 2

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves. Votes: 0

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves. Votes: 0

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. Votes: 0

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves. Votes: 0

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves! Votes: 0

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves. Votes: 0

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident. Votes: 0

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it. Votes: 0

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life. Votes: 0

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Votes: 0

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. Votes: 0

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. Votes: 0

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. Votes: 0

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. Votes: 0

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. Votes: 0

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House. Votes: 0

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. Votes: 0

Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great... And we'd love some shelves over there. Votes: 0

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. Votes: 0

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law. Votes: 0

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them. Votes: 0

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. Votes: 0

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. Votes: 0

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour Votes: 0

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. Votes: 0

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. Votes: 0

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should. Votes: 0

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] Votes: 0

I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks. Votes: 0

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer. Votes: 0

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. Votes: 0

The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists? Votes: 0

Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen. Votes: 0

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me. Votes: 0

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published. Votes: 0

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. Votes: 0

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond... Votes: 0

The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. Votes: 0

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves. Votes: 0

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves. Votes: 0

Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team. Votes: 0

His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius} Votes: 0

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 refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. Votes: 0

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases. Votes: 0

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves. Votes: 0

Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it. Votes: 0

Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books. Votes: 0

I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other. Votes: 0

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. Votes: 0

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.... Votes: 0

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't? Votes: 0

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read. Votes: 0

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us. Votes: 0

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores. Votes: 0

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost. Votes: 0

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. Votes: 0

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves. Votes: 0

I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry. Votes: 0

Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients. Votes: 0