Shelves Quotes - Page 13

• Even though she saw tattoos everywhere, they continued to fascinate her. How bizarre to be branded like a box of cereal. Didn't people mind being counted as just one more product on a shelf? There had to be more to a person than that.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Tattoo, Cereal, People

  Suzanne Weyn (2012). “The Bar Code Tattoo”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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• This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.

  Alberto Manguel

  Morning, Book, Pages

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.177, Vintage Canada

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• Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

  William Wordsworth

  Kind, Statutes

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.201

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• Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Book, Men, Watches

  1941 A Time to Speak,'Of the Librarian's Profession'.

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• My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.

  Gae Aulenti

  Book, Home, Advice

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• One night, a group of moths gathered on a shelf watching a burning candle. Puzzled by the nature of the light, they sent one of their members to go and check on it. The scouting moth circled the candle several times and came back with a description: The light was bright. Then a second moth went to examine it. He, too, came back with an observation: The light was hot. Finally a third moth volunteered to go. When he approached the candle he didn't stop like his friends had done, but flew straight into the flame. He was consumed there and then, and only he understood the nature of the light.

  Elif Safak

  Night, Light, Flames

  "Black Milk: On the Conflicting Demands of Writing, Creativity, and Motherhood". Book by Elif Shafak, 2007.

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• From sunny woof and cloudy weft Fell rain in sheets; so, to myself I hummed these hazard rhymes, and left The learned volume on the shelf.

  Alfred Austin

  Rain, Hazards, Sunny

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• 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.

  Raymond Simard

  Humorous, Three, Needs

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• Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Numbers, Long

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains”, p.15, Theodore Roosevelt

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• Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.

  Tyler Florence

  Kids, Sight, Mind

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• 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.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Noble, Eyeballs

  "When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. April 19, 2009.

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• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Errors, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.129, Penguin UK

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

  Leah Price

  Book, Home, Self

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• Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

  Jessie Ware

  Shelf Life

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• Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

  Sheridan Hay

  Book, Mind, Paper

  Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.6, Anchor

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• I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Book, Men

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• Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

  Peter York

  Book, Opportunity, Rooms

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• If we have a hope of really understanding our place in nature and of carving out a place for ourselves that is sustainable, it's primarily because of the new level of communication. It used to be, 'What you don't have in your mind, you have on your shelf.' But now we have the Web.

  Sylvia Earle

  Nature, Communication, Understanding

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• You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.

  Sharon Horgan

  Actors, Want, Shelf Life

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• You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Oil, America, Matter

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• I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

  Michael Connelly

  Book, Character, Hollywood

  "Q&A With Author Michael Connelly". Interview with Austin O'Connor, www.aarp.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

  Garth Brooks

  Dream, Art, Media

  Song: How You Ever Gonna Know, Album: Sevens, 1997

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• In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be found on the shelves in supermarkets. From a marketing point of view, we have moved ahead of the competition over the past couple of years, and we intend to do everything to keep that position.

  Lars Frederiksen

  Couple, Past, Years

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• You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

  Carly Simon

  Relationship, Clouds, Two

  Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

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• I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

  Frida Giannini

  Wall, Moving, House

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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