Shelves Quotes - Page 19

• There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.

  Laini Taylor

  Taken, Hands, Long

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• What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

  Colum McCann

  Incidents, Accumulation

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Your mom isn’t going to let me step foot inside this place. I’ve seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Gun, Feet

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.997, Simon and Schuster

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• His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wall, Real, Book

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

  Edna O'Brien

  Book, Space, Chairs

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• Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Sorry, Virginia, Gas Stations

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• What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together and they would not trust or want to listen to one another. But each is a piece of a stained-glass whole, without which I wouldn’t make sense to myself or to the world outside.

  Pico Iyer

  Book, Heart, Glasses

  "Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best". www.npr.org. December 13, 2012.

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• In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

  Mark Twain

  Work, Mean, Loss

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world. We are read by others or put away by them. We wait to be seen, sitting quietly on shelves for someone to bother having a look inside us.

  Ari Berk

  Book, Waiting, Together

  Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Book, Constant

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books

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• When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

  Amos Oz

  Growing Up, Book, Ambition

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Events, Calendars

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• The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Faces, Privacy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.

  Catherine Crier

  Real, Phones, Anchors

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• 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.

  Michael Nesmith

  Fall, Rocks, Sitting

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Revenge, Lying, Book

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline...Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there.

  David Sedaris

  Watches, News, My Sister

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, 2005.

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• The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

  Graydon Carter

  Actors, Milk, Actresses

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• I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.

  Sandra Bullock

  Fashion, Art, Light

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• I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Hands, Cabinets

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• I got my iPad, and I'm trying to buy books on that, but I kind of like a book. At the end of my life, when I'm old, I want to have all these shelves full of books. So I'm just gonna do the book thing.

  Luke Bryan

  Book, Ipads, Trying

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• An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

  George Clooney

  Jobs, Fall, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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