Shelves Quotes - Page 7

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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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Renata Adler

Gun, Mind, Preserves

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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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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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My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you intrinsically understand the attraction of searching for hidden treasure amongst rows of dusty shelves or you don't; it's a passion, bordering on a spiritual illness, which cannot be explained to the unaffected.

Kathleen Tessaro

Spiritual, Husband, Passion

Kathleen Tessaro (2013). “Elegance and Innocence: 2-Book Collection”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Tristram Stuart

Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fun, Shelf Life

Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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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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I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

Don Pendleton

Lonely, War, Loneliness

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The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

Sherman Alexie

Book, People, Judgement

Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.

Robert Burns

Long, Tasks, Sitting

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I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

Alexandra Sokoloff

Ambition, Character, Eye

"Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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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 best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

Philip Pullman

Sex, Book, Kids

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There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.

Kate Mosse

Writing, Years, Differences

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Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.

Gabriel Fackre

Biblical, Age, Bookstores

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I figured the process of someone standing at a shelf and deciding what juice to buy is going to be very different than someone sitting at the computer clicking through a bunch of different books or CDs-until I actually looked at the data, and it turned out that the patterns were remarkably similar.

Peter Fader

Book, Data, Cds

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Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

John Jakes

Adventure, Eye, Promise

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Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.

Galen Rowell

Reality, Mars, Nikon

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The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

Lars Ulrich

Trying, Band, Metallica

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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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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

Jonathan Haidt

Believe, Pythagorean Theorem, Rights

Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.32, Vintage

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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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A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

Susan Hill

Book, Inanimate Objects, New Life

Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books

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As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’? Unlike the book on the library shelf, the covers of which shield its contents, our lives cannot be closed. Parents, we truly are an open book in the library of learning of our homes.

Thomas S. Monson

Daughter, Mother, Dad

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