Best Shelves Quotes

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

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

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

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.

Man what’s the point of living if I’m living for myself
Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

Tomer: What’s this? Cabinet: Wt’s ths? Wedge: Cabinet. Tomer: I know it’s a cabinet, but it’s talking. Cabinet: …ts tlkng Janson: Oh that. It’s the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces. Tycho: He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all. Hobbie: Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn’t owe him anything.

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

Everything from a lifetime’s worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

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.

I don’t have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble – it is almost insignificant.

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.

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

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

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.

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

Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn’t like it is because I’m very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you’d push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven’s high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory’s store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

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.

It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all – we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us – to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.

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.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall – it’s the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It’s not really doing it yet, but it’s about to.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I’m put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that’s when she turns into a ‘Christmas Cake’. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

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

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can’t be found on a shelf in the public library.

I’m glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it’s not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker.