Shelves Quotes

• I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

  Sean Astin

  Book, Missing, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

  Frank Zappa

  Education, Witty, Stupid

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Intellectual

  Attributed to Bill Gates in "The Wall Street Journal", December 29, 2011.

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• Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Weekend, Perfect, Enemy

  "9 Quick Tips for Keeping Your Home Feeling Serene and Organized" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

  Debbie Harry

  Nature, Names, Skulls

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• Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

  Scott McNealy

  Technology, Bananas, Shelf Life

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• If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Needs, Growing

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

  Gilbert Highet

  Book, Political, Curiosity

  Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

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• Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Pain, Greek, Age

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems”, p.162, tredition

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• Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

  "Talking with Jesse James Garrett". Interview with Erin Malone, boxesandarrows.com.

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• I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Mean, Odd

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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• High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Fashion, Past, Salad

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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• Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

  Alexander Fleming

  Dark, Years, Age

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• Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

  Chris Brogan

  Ideas, Share, Shelf Life

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• I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Falling In Love, Too Much, Shelf Life

  "Mackenzie Davis: Girl on Fire" by Logan Sykes, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2014.

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• I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

  Ben Whishaw

  Knack, Wizards, Littles

  "Ben Whishaw: Hold the front page" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Stores

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• Then she did something that really surprised me. She blinked back tears and put out her arms. I stepped forward and hugged her. Butterflies started turning my stomach into a mosh pit. "Hey, it's... it's okay." I patted her back. I was aware of everything in the room. I felt like I could read the tiniest print on any book on the shelves. Annabeth's hair smelled like lemon soap. She was shivering.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Butterfly, Hair

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• Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

  William Ernest Henley

  Men, Done, Pity

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• God damn, it's a brand new payback
  From the straight gangsta mack in straight gangsta black
  How many motherfuckers gotta pay
  Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK
  Caps gotta get peeled
  Cause "The Nigga Ya Love to hate" still can "Kill at Will"

  Ice Cube

  Order, Law, Cop

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• The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Lying, Fall, Humorous

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

  Lynne Truss

  Regret, Book, Dvds

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• But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

  John Muir

  Views, Perfect, Gains

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• A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

  Albert Sabin

  Suffering, Might, Scientist

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• It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Waiting, Grows

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.383, Open Road Media

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