Shelves Quotes - Page 14

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Communication, Cds, Ideas

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• I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.

  Jack Tretton

  Phones, America, Retail

  "CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XXIV - Jack Tretton wants to give you $1,200" by Paul Miller, www.engadget.com. February 9, 2007.

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• My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of them and I never will. You just never know. One day I may - need is the word I use - to read Finnegans Wake, the Icelandic sagas, Churchill's history of the Second World War, the complete Tintin in French, 47 novels by Simenon, and By Love Possessed.

  Roger Ebert

  War, Book, One Day

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• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.

  Bella Freud

  Stars, Class, Done

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• 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.

  Andrew Davidson

  Girl, Cake, Age

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.96, Canongate Books

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• Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Matter, Aliens

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• My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"

  Janet Fitch

  Father, Book, Two

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September, 2006.

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• Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

  Emilia Clarke

  Book, Tvs, Never Trust

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• I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Song, Book, People

  Czeslaw Milosz, “And Yet The Books”

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• It's like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf... most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

  Joyce Meyer

  Salad Dressing, Together, Add

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• Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Winter, Night

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• I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

  Hilary Mantel

  Lying, Book, School

  "Author, author: I once stole a book ..." by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2009.

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• The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

  Helen Hunt

  Awards, Earthquakes, Oscars

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• There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Book, Feet

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• You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

  Thomas Friedman

  Next Day, Riyadh, Baghdad

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.

  Joshua Foer

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.104, Penguin

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• Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Engineering, Ask Me, Asks

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

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• I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Dad, Writing

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• One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Writing, Artist, People

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1961). “The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall”

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• there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Laughter, Book, Play

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1931). “My story”, Farrar & Rinehart

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• I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

  Carrie Fisher

  Awards, Bipolar, Done

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• I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

  Arjun Rampal

  Actors, Als, Likes

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• I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like this, I can just stop. I can't throw books out, even if I think they're crummy. I feel like I've got to give it to the library. I've got to loan it to somebody, or I keep it on my shelf. It's like a plant.

  Susan Orlean

  Book, Thinking, Giving

  "The Authors' Roundtable". Interview with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

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• For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Rocks, Years, Hip Hop

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