Shelves Quotes - Page 15

• You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

  Jasper Fforde

  Believe, Book, Lakes

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• The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

  Bernie Taupin

  Albums, Forget, Worst

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.

  Max Lucado

  Fashion, Jesus, Doe

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• A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.

  Max Richter

  Dream, Memories, Data

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• Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist.
  [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis
  Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

  Horace

  Men, Ordinary, Poet

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• For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Purpose, Might

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.199

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• One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Book, Class

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• He knows enough, the mariner, who knows
  Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil,
  What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds
  He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause
  Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave;
  Whence those impetuous currents in the main
  Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why
  The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure
  As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Sea, Heaven, Mind

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.37

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• Each petty hand
  Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will
  Govern and carry her to her ends, must know
  His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;
  What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers;
  Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em;
  What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

  Ben Jonson

  Spring, Hands, Weather

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.188

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• On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

  John Milton

  Dapper, Fairy, Sand

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.186, Pearson Education

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• I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Children, Book, Dark

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Breaking up monotony is key to life and it doesn't matter whether I'm stacking shelves or writing songs, if I was doing the same thing every day I just couldn't take it.

  Doc Brown

  Song, Writing, Keys

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• 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

  Fall, Thinking, Hair

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Friends, Mistake, Errors

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• And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

  Javier Bardem

  Reality, Hands, Two

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• Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mom, Self, Vegetables

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

  T. S. Eliot

  Army, Law, Watches

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Brain, World

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.17, Melville House

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• Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

  Roy Ayers

  Years, Numbers, People

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• Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.

  Jason Jordan

  Long, Answers, Management

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• At last some time for pleasure trips
  And do what you want to do
  The time to just take your time
  It's toodle-oo to time that flew
  Those plan A's and B's
  Coming down of that dusty shelf;
  it's your time now just for you
  To do things for your self.

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Self, Want

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• Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

  Mike Figgis

  Eight, Years, Missing

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• The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

  Calvin Trillin

  Life, Family, Book

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• I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

  Robert Carlyle

  Who I Am, Ducks, Balance

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

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• A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

  John Heilpern

  Cat, Exercise, Thinking

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