Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, but romance is shelved in fiction for a reason.
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.
Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it and put it on their shelves, like...Professor Hawking's Brief History of Time. That was a book that h...
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.
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.
My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.
I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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.
true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science. { }
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.
There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.
