Top 544 Shelf Quotes & Sayings

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

Potential has a shelf life.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

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

You have a shelf-life on TV.

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

I really don't have any shelf music.

Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

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

I understand that there's going to be a shelf life for 'Jersey Shore.'

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

For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

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

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

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

There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in.

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

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

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

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?

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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

Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

I've never had food in my fridge. All I have in my fridge is one shelf of Canada Dry ginger ale, Diet Cokes on the next shelf, and ZeroWater on the next shelf. That is it.

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

When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.

There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.

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

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

I believe that everything has a shelf life.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

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

A loverboy's shelf life is very limited.

Every artiste's shelf life... is their destiny.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

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

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

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

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

I didn't like when people said that actresses have shelf life.

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

I'm kind of a firm believer that songs can have a shelf life with an artist.

Character actors have a long shelf life.

You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

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

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

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

The future has no shelf life

Actors have limited time. We also have a shelf life.