Shelves Quotes - Page 3

...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.

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

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy on your 'must-keep' shelf. Enjoy!

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

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

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

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

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

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

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.

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.

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

Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

ObamaCare is the Democrats' problem. We are gonna take the problem off the shelves for them. We're doing them a tremendous service by doing it. We could sit back and let them hang with it. We are doing the Democrats a great service.

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

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

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

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

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

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.