Shelves Quotes - Page 15

• It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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• If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

  Kris Carr

  Long Life, Shelf Life, Ifs

  Interview with Sophie Uliano, sophieuliano.com.

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• In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.

  Alberto Manguel

  Art, Writing, Hard Times

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• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Dust, Two, Drawing

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

  Patricia Marx

  Giving

  Patricia Marx (1985). “You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• My wife and I lived all alone,
  contention was our only bone.
  I fought with her, she fought with me,
  and things went on right merrily.
  But now I live here by myself
  with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
  and pass my days with little cheer
  since I have parted from my dear.

  Robert Creeley

  Marriage, Cheer, Wife

  Robert Creeley, Benjamin Friedlander (2008). “Selected Poems, 1945-2005”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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• A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Book, Reading, Men

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• I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

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• Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.

  George Arthur Crump

  Running, Mean, Data

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• I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

  Dean Cain

  Video, Want, Proud

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Flower, Locks, Done

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• 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.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Library, Tasks

  "Ask The Author Live: Nicholson Baker On The Kindle". Q&As, www.newyorker.com. July 24, 2009.

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• If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.

  Mitch Albom

  Believe, Corn Flakes, Needs

  "Mitch Albom Wants You To 'Have A Little Faith'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 19, 2009.

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• My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"

  Janet Fitch

  Father, Book, Two

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2006.

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• Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

  Shaun Cassidy

  Idols, Shelf Life

  "Shaun Cassidy Creator Of American Gothic". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. December 19, 2005.

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Years, Nfl

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

  Joe Dante

  Long, People, Understanding

  "24 hours of horror with Joe Dante". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.

  Tyler Florence

  Kids, Sight, Mind

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• I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

  Frida Giannini

  Wall, Moving, House

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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• You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

  Carly Simon

  Relationship, Clouds, Two

  Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

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• Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

  Garth Brooks

  Dream, Art, Media

  Song: How You Ever Gonna Know, Album: Sevens, 1997

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• 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.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Character, Hollywood

  "Q&A With Author Michael Connelly". Interview with Austin O'Connor, www.aarp.org. March 9, 2011.

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

  Sharon Horgan

  Actors, Want, Shelf Life

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