Quotation Explorer - 'Shelf'

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens. - Anne McCaffrey
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
Every heart has a story to tell. Some dreams have wings, some are torn at the seams and just sit there on the shelf. If you were to walk in my shoes, you would see that we are all the same. So find the love inside yourself because every heart has a story to tell. - Sara Haze
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker said it all when he remarked, "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Thnk things through-then follow through. - John C. Maxwell
Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. - Andrew Davidson
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. - Robert Bloch
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. - Barbara Kingsolver
Never write a book and let it sit on a shelf - Marvela Dawnay
Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists. - John Mark Green
Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love! - C. JoyBell C.
So those pills that offered painless relief stayed stored on the shelf, out of the strength of her reach, high atop the altar of platitudes. - J.R. Hamantaschen
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
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out my heart leapt at the sight row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first? - Keith Donohue
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
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
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you. - Wil Wheaton
Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored. - J.F Hermann
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. - Samuel Butler
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