Shelves Quotes - Page 11

Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?

Holly Black

Book, Reading, Knowledge And Power

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Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

Jerry Spinelli

Hate, Kids, Years

"Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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

David Levithan

Wall, Book, Sea

David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.46, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

Jack London

Book, Glasses, Light

"Novels and Social Writings".

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

Tom Hodgkinson

Degrees, Difficult

Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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‎"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.

Lewis Buzbee

Book, Perfectly Good, Long Ago

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The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

Terry Pratchett

Book, Reading, Dwarves

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... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

Anne Lamott

Unconditional Love, Reality, Love Is

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There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

Bertrand Russell

Doubt, Atheism, Next

"Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell". 1971.

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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

Calvin Trillin

Book, Average, Yogurt

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What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Jack Welch

Educational, Offering, Organization

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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.

Olivia Wilde

Hair, Self, Expression

"Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

Kate Winslet

Thinking, Loathing, Kind

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

Geoff Mulgan

Financial, Supermarkets, Knows

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Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

Virginia Woolf

Song, Book, Library

Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.828, Wordsworth Editions

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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Strong, Latin, Book

Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1542, BookCaps Study Guides

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Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo, and I look at these things oddly, in my dream. I stand and think, "What is all this for? What is the hunger that drives this need?" I think it's fear. Codi, I hope you won't be hurt by this, but I don't think I'll ever be going back. I don't think I can.

Barbara Kingsolver

Dream, Hurt, Mean

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Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

David Ogden Stiers

Hate, Get Better, Tape

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.

Wilbur Smith

Mother, School, Age

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Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

Andre Heller

Technology, Computer, Fishes

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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

Alan Alda

Ideas, Sometimes, Certain

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There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Aleksandar Hemon

Book, Reading, Logic

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

Sarah Jessica Parker

Couple, Self

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The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

James Cash Penney

Economy, Salesman, Merchandise

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People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound

Ideas, People, Judgement

1938 Guide to Kulcher, pt.1, section1, ch.5.

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