Shelves Quotes - Page 16

• "Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves."

  Kanye West

  Rap, Dark, Apology

  "Kanye West New York Times Interview: Rapper Takes Back Taylor Swift Apology, Professes Love For Kim Kardashian", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

  Jandy Nelson

  Love, Wall, Book

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• Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving, Looks, Calling

  "Is Iran Our Enemy?; Pelosi Defends Controversial Appointment; Could Scientology Have Saved Anna Nicole?". www.cnn.com. March 1, 2007.

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• Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

  Aaron Allston

  Stupid, Talking, Space

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

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Writing, Wanted

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• You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head on the shelf" Rodney laughed. "No Justina, it doesn't look like Jeffrey Dahmer's hideaway.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mother, Body, Want

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• I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Eye

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• When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

  Niall Williams

  Father, Book, Eye

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• I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.

  Lawrence Wright

  Book, Writing, Feet

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

  Will Thomas

  Doe, Answers, Rooms

  Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  People, Marketing, Wells

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• There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.

  T. H. White

  Book, Smell, Too Much

  T. H. White (2010). “The Once and Future King”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Taken, Hands

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• 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.

  Italo Calvino

  Book, Cry, Spots

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

  Jim Butcher

  Frustration, Skulls, Clubs

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• If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Writing, Want

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• Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. "I'll find you something else to read. Catch." He had let it fall without looking and Tessa had to dart forward to seize it before it hit the floor. - Clockwork Angel

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Fall, Angel

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eagles, Pieces, Forks

  J. R. R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1982). “The Hobbit Or There and Back Again”, Del Rey

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• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Skeletons, Adults

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• A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Work, Sleep, Thinking

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.215, Grove Press

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

  Derek Walcott

  Cat, Vases

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Clever, Coffee

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• She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Men, Hands

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• I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Home, Emotional

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