Quotes of: Shelf Keyword

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

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Speedboat

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin

Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.

Tori Amos

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

I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

Randall Munroe

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Lower the bar. Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.

L.A. Reid

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

It's humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet.

Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Mushu: I was this close. This close to impressin' the ancestors, gettin' the top shelf, an entourage. Man. All my fine work. Pfft.

Mulan

The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it's a John Wells film. 'August: Osage County,' as a play, is done. Written. On the shelf. It'll be performed in its entirety for years.

Tracy Letts