Shelves Quotes - Page 8

• I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

  Saul Williams

  New York, Book, Practice

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.

  Jillian Medoff

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Nice, Book, Worry

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn't like it is because I'm very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you'd push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired.

  Peter Andre

  Bottles, Drink, Reason

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

  Hugh Grant

  Space, Supermarkets

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• Wanting to know absolutely what a story is about, and to be able to say it in a few sentences, is dangerous: it can lead us to wanting to possess a story as we possess a cup... A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.

  Andre Dubus

  Book, Cutting, Twenties

  Andre Dubus (2011). “Meditations from a Movable Chair”, p.49, Vintage

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• You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

  Jim Thompson

  Book, Reading, Ideas

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put questions to these books they will answer me with all the faithfulness and fulness which has been left in them by the great men who have left the books with us.

  John Bright

  Book, Men, Past

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• In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Library, Would Be

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• My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Book, Thinking, Dull

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt.  If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them.  If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.

  David Knopfler

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Past, Years

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• Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

  Jeff Ament

  Decision, My Best Friend, Stuff

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• The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrustation of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water.

  Robin McKinley

  Country, Dust, Land

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.11, Penguin

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• I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Thinking, Wind

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Care, Take Care

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• I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Wall, Sadness, Home

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.68, Macmillan

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, Half, May

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• It is fun, revisiting a role. Usually, as an actor, you do a movie and you put that character up on a shelf, and he's done. That character is now immortalized on film, but you don't get to play him again. In these films [Twilight saga], we got to revisit these characters, and we didn't take that for granted.

  Kellan Lutz

  Fun, Twilight, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Meanwhile, the chemical industry has mounted an aggressive campaign to discredit organic food. And without the knowledge or consent of most Americans, two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves now contain genetically engineered ingredients.

  John Robbins

  Two, Ingredients, Campaigns

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.4, Conari Press

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• We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Silent, Used, Time Left

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'

  Konnie Huq

  Jobs, People, One Day

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Dream, Home, Imagination

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• You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

  Jennifer Connelly

  Would Be, Needs, Video

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

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