Shelves Quotes - Page 24

• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  Samuel Butler

  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”

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• No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Beer, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

  Anne McCaffrey

  Book, Comfort, World

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• Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?

  Aaron Paul

  Waiting, Barbie, Wonder

  Twitter post from Oct 23, 2014

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• One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Book, Home, Knights

  Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.16, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

  William E. Gladstone

  Book, Rooms, Welcome

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Lying, Book

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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