56 Shelves Quotes for You to Enjoy

On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust. Joseph Brodsky

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Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I could quit my job as a journalist. Turns out it was closer to 10 books. It also turns out that while it's great to see my titles on bookstore shelves, my best customers are schools and libraries. Kate Klise

Best Great Me Job Journalist Before Books Bookstore Libraries Out See Someone Could Also Schools Print Shelves Five Closer Quit In Print While Titles Customers Turns Publishing Early Career Need

Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies. Lynne Truss

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I have stocked shelves, waited on tables, and bartended. I have been a salesperson at many levels. Each giving me a unique view of what made a company successful and, even more importantly, what made a company fail. Mark Cuban

Me Made Giving Tables More Fail Shelves Importantly Been Waited Successful View Many Many Levels Unique Company Even Each Levels

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world. Michael Dirda

Life Good You Book World Digital Become Down Books Collecting Plus Part Day-To-Day Reminding Well Calling Greatest Shelves Existence Texts Pastime Hands Your Presence

When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months. Michael Moss

Me Problems Salt Months Hooked Stay Miracle Totally Foods Also Industry Shelves Itself Staggering Burst Flavor Ingredient Really Serve

Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing. Miranda Hart

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. Nicholson Baker

Library Big Become Research Books Libraries Remains Like Shelves Task Same Form Which Full Electronic Appeared Keep Published

You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day. Nigel Lawson

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life. Noah Baumbach

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Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost. Peter York

Opportunity Lost Books Saw One Thing Brought Struck Bearing Point Colour Never Shelves Tragically Up Quite Just Just One Just One Thing Room Them Decorative Display Filled Thing

I'd begun to collect things that were lying in piles on the floor of my studio. I had run out of space, and I started to build shelves. I turned around one day and realized that that was the vehicle for carrying so many of the things that I was looking at and talking about, so they went from the walls to the works. Rashid Johnson

Day Walls Space Looking Build Lying One Day Out Collect Run Carrying About Had Studio Vehicle Talking Around Piles Shelves Were Begun Turned Realized Many Works Floor Things Started

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves! Rita Ora

Finished Never Until Shelves Album

'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves. Rob Liefeld

Internet Criticism First Flying Out Emerging Brush Drowned Message Shelves Were Off Just Boards Copies Millions

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library. Rob Manuel

Library Age Problem Walks Local Paper Libraries Crowd Through No-One Call Least Shelves Yes Hitting Door Public Younger Turned Videogames Your Even Tech Bring

What I do is provide a quality product with a quality taste, that's sustainable, and present it with a proper price structure so when people see it on the shelves, they will want to try it. Rohan Marley

Quality People Try Will See Proper Structure Price Shelves Provide Taste Want Sustainable Product Present

I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started. Sanjeev Bhaskar

Myself Family Burden Every Summer Paper About Supermarket Through Days Until Shelves Did Then Worked Really Working Round Milk Right Saturdays Started University

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?' Sean Astin

Three Else Books Bookstore Out Rings About Never Missing Like Lord Am Lord Of The Rings Shelves Heard Cow Holy Tolkien Actually

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches. Simon Hoggart

You Book Dinner Pleasures Would Would-Be Dinner Table Table Staying Browse Never Almost Opening Like Read Always Shelves Arrive Friends Get Sitting Packet Sandwiches

I went into a Beverly Hills shop to buy an attache case. They had 250 cases on their shelves. I asked an attractive saleswoman if they carried one made of belting leather. She said 'no.' That was the end of the conversation. She made no attempt to show me another case that would provide equal service. I didn't buy an attache case. Stanley Marcus

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I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd

You Science Heart Mind Long Wolf Pressed Would Would-Be Find Something Fondness Both Like Most Read Hall Science Fiction Shelves However Historical Historical Fiction Wondrous Fiction Anything Story Hard

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it. Tariq Ali

Birthday Me Myth Reading Before Gave Months Someone Looked Shelves Did Legends Stop Many Sat Present Copy Pears

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. Terry Pratchett

Kid Read Shelves Fantasy

A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly. Theo Paphitis

Long Pretty Putting Shelves Lot Quickly Processes Products Useless Multinational

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