Shelves Quotes - Page 20

• For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Loyalty, Book, Home

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• When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Flower, Race, Dust

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• Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

  Gail Carriger

  Lord, Advantage, Spinsters

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• A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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• The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

  James Gleick

  Reading, Past, Mirrors

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• Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

  Christopher Paolini

  Book, Dust, Gathering

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1756, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Book, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

  Per Petterson

  Memories, Film, Disappear

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• We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Life, Sweet

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• Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Children, Trying, Doctrine

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Book, Hard Times

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?

  Keith Donohue

  Book, Heart, Cities

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.88, Random House

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• Tailor your space to your needs. In one closet, I have upper and lower rods for skirts, pants and tops. The second is all shelves for bags and linens. In the third, there's just one rod for suits and dresses. To hang evening gowns, I use hooks on the ceiling.

  Thelma Golden

  Space, Tailors, Pants

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• If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Stupid, People, Support

  National Day Rally, 1983.

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• What does she (J. K. Rowling) hope people will take with them about this time? “When all the fuss and hoopla dies away, and when all the press commentary dies away, I think it will be seen that this phenomenon was generated, in the first instance, by kids loving a book. A book went on shelves, and a few people loved it. When all of the smoke and lights die away, that’s what you’ll be left with. “And that’s the most wonderful thought for an author.

  Melissa Anelli

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Melissa Anelli (2011). “Harry, A History - Enhanced with Videos and Exclusive J.K. Rowling Interview: The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Causes, Moral, Intense

  1988 'Is Nothing Sacred? The Ethics of Television', in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fall.

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• The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Book, Taken, Hands

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Lying, Son, Wife

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• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  Ed Stoppard

  Jobs, Book, Two

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• The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the regret and indignation of every spectator whose mind was not totally darkened by religious prejudice. The compositions of ancient genius, so many of which have irretrievably perished, might surely have been excepted from the wreck of idolatry, for the amusement and instruction of succeeding ages.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Regret, Years

  Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.96, Modern Library

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• Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, Book, Hard Work

  "Why Jim Gaffigan Can't Stop Eating". Interview with Comedy Central and J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.

  Gemma Halliday

  Heart, Character, Winning

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• I can hear the library humming in the night,
  a choir of authors murmuring inside their books
  along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,
  Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son,
  each one stitched into his own private coat,
  together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

  Billy Collins

  Book, Son, Night

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.14, Random House

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• So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, Political, Way

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• If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.

  Jack Tretton

  America, Giving, Bucks

  "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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