“ There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ”
- Lucinda Franks- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The packaging for a microwavable microwave dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries. ”
- David Wann- Copy
- 2.5K
“ I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living. ”
- Dean Cain- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. ”
- Robert Carlyle- Copy
- 54
“ It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. ”
- Christopher Dodd- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. ”
- Debbie Harry- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. ”
- Andrew Heller- Copy
- 121
“ I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but I know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries. ”
- Thomas Mallon- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from, man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 484
“ I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything. ”
- Elizabeth I- Copy
- 1.6K
“ These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ”
- Gilbert Highet- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives. ”
- Calvin Trillin- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. ”
- Robert Albert Bloch- Copy
- 857
“ Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3K
“ The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. ”
- John Mortimer- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It seems that in a lot of foreign countries the crime novel is placed on a higher shelf and recognized more as a method of holding up a mirror to society. In the US there is more of a sense that these are entertainments or puzzles first, social investigations or character studies second… ”
- Michael Connelly- Copy
- 3.6K
“ You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. ”
- Samantha Morton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write. ”
- Luther Vandross- Copy
- 814
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