Shelves Quotes - Page 5

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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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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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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At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.

Steve Coppell

Years, The End Of The Day, Funny Soccer

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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

J. D. Salinger

Children, Book, My Best Friend

"The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429, 1972.

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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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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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Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it

Ralph Yarborough

People, Jam, Littles

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But the finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear.

James Lane Allen

Stars, Wall, Flower

"A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works".

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Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint

Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

Blue, Shoes, Feet

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Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in.

Hilary McKay

Giving Up, Real, Believe

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It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge them necessarily reshapes my choice and, more important, in no time proves too small for them and forces me to change my arrangement. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Like Nature, libraries abhor a vacuum, and the problem of space is inherent in the very nature of any collection of books.

Alberto Manguel

Book, Space, Long

Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.65, Vintage Canada

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It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.

Princess Diana

Husband, Years, Long

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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

Kids, Men, Hands

High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse"

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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Thornton Wilder

Reading, Book, Writing

Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

Barry Lyga

Lying, Buying

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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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Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.

Kim Harrison

Beautiful, Sweet, Sleep

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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

P. J. O'Rourke

Life, Brother, Book

P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

David Almond

Book, Differences, Making A Difference

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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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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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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.

Annie Dillard

Running, Book, Night

Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth's bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie's leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the spinning racks at the public library down the block from her house, and the short stories of Dorothy Parker. Wodehouse's jubilant wordplay bore itself into her synapses like a worm into a fresh ear of corn.

E. Lockhart

Summer, Morning, Block

E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.72, Hot Key Books

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I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.

F.B. Meyer

Christian, Character, Thinking

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