Shelves Quotes - Page 3

When I was kid, they always used to tell me to keep notebooks. I look at my shelves now and it's just nothing but notebooks. And if I haven't gotten an idea but I have time to work, I'll pull one out and I bet there will be five or six sentences that will kick me off.

John Darnielle

Notebook, Kids, Ideas

Source: www.motherjones.com

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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.

Jim Steranko

Mean, Marketing, Bookstores

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The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

Lars Ulrich

Trying, Band, Metallica

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You can think whatever you want to and laugh, but I believe if I would have never learned to put my stuff back on the right grocery store shelves, and I would have never learned to put my cart back where God told me to, I don't believe I would be standing here today preaching this message to you. And I think there are literally millions of people who miss the will of God for their life because they think little things don't make any difference.

Joyce Meyer

Believe, Thinking, Differences

"Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

Jeanette Winterson

Book, Progress, Gutenberg

Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.

Galen Rowell

Reality, Mars, Nikon

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Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

John Jakes

Adventure, Eye, Promise

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For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I do not want to see it on electronic. I do not want to see all of those indices on Kindle. I don't want this physical object to disappear, because when it's there and it's present, it's continually suggesting new relationships in a way that an electronic index couldn't.

Jeanette Winterson

Book, New Relationship, Want

Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Renata Adler

Gun, Mind, Preserves

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Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my heart to think that there are kids out there, ready to have their imaginations lit on fire, excited and wanting to read, and facing naked shelves in their school or local libraries. Rather than complain or wait till the system stops failing our nation's children this is a matter I feel we must take into our own hands. There are children, right now, waiting-wanting to read. What shall we tell them>

Nathan Fillion

Children, Growing Up, Reading

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Youve 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.

Samantha Morton

Book, Self, People

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I love the scrapbooks, I have a shelf of scrapbooks fans give me - they're so sweet, so detailed!

Selena Gomez

Sweet, Giving, Fans

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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.

Sterling Hayden

Dream, Lying, Dust

Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.43, Pickle Partners Publishing

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Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block, which is to say that this is very good stuff, indeed.

George Pelecanos

New York, Block, Heart

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To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.

Philip Graham Ryken

Idols, Significance, Angry

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Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her steadfast loyalty and love for her family are truly inspirational for young and old alike.

Nien Cheng

Loyalty, Moving, Adversity

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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!

Robert E. Vardeman

Long, Giving, Trilogies

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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Andrea Dworkin

Women, Believe, Bears

Pornography: Men Possessing Women ch. 5 (1981)

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The future has no shelf life

Warren G. Bennis

Future, Vision, Shelf Life

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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World, Safe, Brave New World Character

Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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

Brian Eno

Sitting

"Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.

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I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

Brittany Snow

Princess, Cheesy, Paper

"Brittany snow's favorite things". www.seventeen.com. August 15, 2007.

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And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose.

Cesar Milstein

Success, Science, Cells

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In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

Barack Obama

Book, Mind Blowing, Greek

Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.203, Canongate Books

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I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.

Alfred Kazin

Reading, Ideas, Long

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