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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
Life
Stupidity
Universe
More
Hydrogen
Longer
Shelf
Shelf Life
Than
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
John C. Maxwell
Life
You
Before
Must
Date
Ideas
Shelf
Shelf Life
Short
Them
Act
My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
Emilia Clarke
Trust
Book
Father
TV
Never
Make
Read
Sure
Shelf
Said
Always
Than
Anyone
Bigger
Whose
We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.
Myles Munroe
Life
World
Lost
Sense
Nothing
Live
Society
Ours
Dates
Absolute
Obsolescence
Shelf
Shelf Life
Limited
Permanence
Real
Any
Real Sense
Planned
Disposable
Largely
I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.
Stanley Kubrick
Eyes
Book
Books
Bookstores
States
Bit
Finish
Take
Like
Read
Shelf
Go
Surprised
Off
Close
Order
Literally
After
Things
I think what you have to do in print is to create even more memorable images and more memorable pieces because what one consumes online or in social has a much shorter shelf life, so to speak, so what print has to have is no more weight, but it has to be something that you can't find so easily online. It has to really stand for print.
Anna Wintour
Life
You
Speak
Think
Easily
Find
Memorable
Something
Online
More
Consumes
Weight
Pieces
Print
Because
Shelf
Shelf Life
In Print
Social
Create
Much
Really
Stand
Even
Images
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Anne McCaffrey
Me
World
Books
Something
Read
Comfort
Shelf
Closes
Happens
Which
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
Janet Fitch
Great
Me
You
Library
World
Engineer
Father
Journalist
Every
Local
Our
Books
Weeks
Writer
Take
He
Arms
Read
Readers
Shelf
Off
Up
Branch
Literary
Them
Two
Pull
Two Weeks
Prince was outside his dressing room, shaking one of those little Easter egg maracas. His hair was straightened to a soft wave; his eyelashes were unfairly lovely. He smelled like the most expensive shelf in the Sephora perfume aisle. This man wearing eyeliner, heels and ladies' perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard.
Mayte Garcia
Man
Hair
Wave
Those
Aisle
Easter
Eyelashes
Wearing
Dressing
Dressing Room
Somehow
More
Shaking
Outside
Masculine
He
Like
Prince
Perfume
Smelled
Most
Shelf
Were
His
Than
Egg
Unfairly
Expensive
Ladies
Lovely
Little
Heels
Room
Straightened
Bodyguard
Soft
It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Alan Alda
Life
Time
Me
You
Sometimes
Lose
Other
Something
Onto
Clear
Longer
Ideas
Shelf
Shelf Life
Freshness
Replaced
Than
Hang
Really
Certain
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
Alan Cumming
People
Sometimes
Ambition
Action
Out
Kind
See
Guy
Small
Masculinity
Know
Because
Shelf
Still
Coming
Very
Short
Movie
Movie Star
Straight
Them
Who
Connected
Plastic
Agree
Star
Resistance
Playing
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
Anthony Doerr
Single
Books
Several
Thousand
House
Around
Shelf
Boy
Fit
Owned
Stacked
Now
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
Bella Freud
Life
Class
Stars
Somehow
Never
Shelf
Shelf Life
Lot
Done
Right
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
Ben Dolnick
You
Single
Holding
Down
Stretched
Enough
Nine
Entire
Eclectic
Output
Could
Take
Shelf
Were
Hand
Fitzgerald
Bunch
Literary
Inclined
Novels
Thin
Her
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like precious things on a shelf.
Ben Whishaw
Collect
Buddhas
Like
Shelf
Arrange
Wizards
Precious
Precious Things
Little
Them
Used
Things
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
Love
Me
Love Me
Matter
Will
Paper
Paper Bag
Wear
Remind
Bag
Prince
Robert
Princess
Cheesy
Shelf
Keep
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
Bruce Dickinson
Love
Me
Engineering
Put
Shelf
Up
Ask
I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
Caitlin Moran
Food
Age
Garden
Remember
Three
Somewhere
First
Mouth
Other
Back
Around
Shelf
Came
Pinching
Than
Realisation
Them
Popping
Growing
Peas
I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.
Chad le Clos
Life
Will
Thought
Every
Able
Given
Retire
Know
Also
Shelf
Shelf Life
Forever
Any
Realise
Swim
Swimmer
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
Chris Abani
Ali
Books
Bookstore
Those
Alphabet
Course
Around
Shelf
How
Often
Depends
Margaret
Monica
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Christopher Dodd
Food
Easy
Eat
Supermarket
Shelf
Forget
American
Appear
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
Writing
Building
Sit
Inventory
Shelf
Up
Just
Scripts
Them
Acting
Even
Keep
There's something about pulling out a real tape from a shelf and looking at it and knowing that 'Everlong' is on it, or 'Best of You' is on it, and it's really special.
Dave Grohl
Best
You
Looking
Out
About
Something
Knowing
Shelf
Real
Tape
Really
Special
Pulling
'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who,' 'Forgotten Realms,' even 'Firefly' and 'The X-Files' have shared world novels and other media. I can't help but notice these settings have large shelf space in bookstores, so their publishers and authors are getting something right.
David Conyers
Doctor
World
Space
Other
Settings
Bookstores
Something
Shared
Doctor Who
Shelf
Authors
Getting
Forgotten
Notice
Help
Who
Wars
Large
Even
Novels
Star
Media
Star Wars
Publishers
Right
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
Will
Action
Living
About
Vehicles
Talk
Also
Make
Shelf
Proud
Lot
End
Up
Get
Want
Movies
Scripts
Video
Low-Budget
Right
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry
Mind
Long
Name
Shelf
Got
Up
Ends
Skull
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