Shelves Quotes - Page 6

• I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it. I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here.

  Bill Hicks

  Jesus, Lying, Sarcasm

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• I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

  John Baldessari

  Artist, Glasses, Snow

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• There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something.

  Arj Barker

  Apples, People, Trying

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• There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.

  Dave Grohl

  Real, Knowing, Special

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• See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

  Luther Vandross

  Song, Writing, Records

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• The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.

  Leo Lionni

  War, Fall, Simple

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• I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Summer, Paper, Milk

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• When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kids, Fiction, Fantasy

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• America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they had to build the big boosters in the arm's war, so now all of the sudden Russia could take off the shelf and put into orbit much heavier things than we could, so that's why they had the original leadership.

  Burt Rutan

  War, Russia, America

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Memories, Moving, Technology

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus one, and on the top shelf at home, I've got the books I love, my favorite books, and that's the type of book that I want to write.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Home, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I am always consulted about covers, and give feedback, but I am also aware that what causes a customer to pick a book up off a shelf in the UK is very different from what causes a customer to pick a book up in the US.

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Giving, Different

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.

  Bill McKibben

  Eight, Ice, Data

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Feels, Ifs

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• First time I ever took acid and got really high, as I was walking around I thought "Gee. The world looked like this when I was a little kid." I remember seeing the sparkling reality and three-dimensionality of things. Sort of like a renewal, every time you do it is a renewal, it is a renewal. It keeps your head young. It lets you keep that being able to accept the new thing just as easily as a kid would. Most people get all this stuff in their head like an old library, no room for the new volume to go on the shelves.

  Owsley Stanley

  Kids, Reality, People

  Source: medium.com

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• There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Book, Ignorance, Source

  Source: bookriot.com

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• ObamaCare is the Democrats' problem. We are gonna take the problem off the shelves for them. We're doing them a tremendous service by doing it. We could sit back and let them hang with it. We are doing the Democrats a great service.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Problem, Democrat

  "Will Trump's random outbursts kill the GOP effort to destroy ObamaCare?" by Paul Waldman, theweek.com. January 13, 2017.

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• I know how it is to grind, I know how it is to get up at 4 in the morning and do things, I know how it is for a label not to support you, I know how it is to be put on a shelf at a label but still keep my career alive.

  Cormega

  Morning, Careers, Support You

  Source: fatlacemagazine.com

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• There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.

  Bob Goff

  Cute, Running, Differences

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• I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

  Barbara Crampton

  Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.

  Jon Spaihts

  Simple, Law, Space

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Having written pilots, in recent years, for networks that are dusty on a shelf somewhere, I was growing more and more impatient and eager to create something and just get it seen. Ultimately, that's what you're in the business to do.

  Tommy Dewey

  Years, Growing, Pilots

  Source: collider.com

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• I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Morning, Laughing, Clerks

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Poet, Worthy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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