Quotes of: Shelf-life Keyword

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

Patti Smith

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

Richard Scarry

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Samuel Butler

I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no matter what I wear. Cheesy!

Brittany Snow

Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.

Charles Duhigg

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.

Ben Whishaw

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

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

J.F Hermann

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

David Ogden Stiers

I,” I start, and she turns to look at my lips moving, rehearsing for some grand proposal. “I think it’d be good idea if you brought a few books over and left them on my shelf.” I’m a writer, and this is as good as it gets. She didn’t need...

Book of She

Most killers have pretty average lifestyles. Steady jobs too. Sometimes they're even living the family life-white picket fence and a four-door sedan. That's what makes them so scary. They act human and they slot into society and since a young age the...

The Killing Hour

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and k...

A Room of One's Own

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. I want them to serve another purpose.

Sandra Bullock

We both know you can’t split a bookstore. (I don’t even share shelf space.)

The Pepper in the Gumbo

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

Lies have short shelf lives. Lies go bad. Lies rot and stink up the joint.

Sherman Alexie

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound

When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

Dan Aykroyd

And she is the reader who browses the shelf and looks for new worlds but finds herself.

BookSpeak!: Poems about Books

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

Brisingr