Top 1200 Shelf Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

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.

I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

If you want to get to the top shelf, you have to win something.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.

Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a dog at the dump, baby – you’re just lickin’ at the empty tin can, trying to get more nutrition out of it. And if you’re not careful, that can’s gonna get stuck on your snout forever and make your life miserable. So drop it.” “But I love him.” “So love him.” “But I miss him.” “So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

People are scrambling to figure out how they can prolong the life of an album. But as long as the shelf space continues to shrink at retail, there's just no room for them anymore... which is fine with me! I would love to be the next person in country to just release digital singles, but I think we're probably a little ways from that.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace.

In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

There are times when you felt especially important to another person, or cared about or loved or accepted. Well, loving relationships aren't something you can have like a precious little jewel you put in a box and then put on your shelf. It's something you walk towards. And there's always difficulties; there's always pain in relationships. But you can keep walking towards that beacon in the distance. That process, that journey, is called life. And if you're moving towards the things that you value, life is more vital, flowing; it's more empowering.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.

If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.

I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.

I love films. I have a collection of DVDs on my shelf.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But not books: however systematically you try to destroy them, there is always a chance that a copy will survive and continue to enjoy a shelf-life in some corner on an out-of-the-way library somehwere in Reykjavik, Valladolid or Vancouver.

She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

You see this with fighters all the time, if you're not staying active, you're kinda put on the shelf a little bit.

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.