Shelves Quotes

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.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

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.

The future has no shelf life

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

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

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

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.

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.

Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.

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.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Bookstores never seem to know where to put me on the shelves. But I do. I love my genre and I love those writers, so I am happy to be considered a crime writer. That's what I consider myself.

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.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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