Top 544 Shelf Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
I've just started to get really envious when I go into people's houses and see books on a shelf.
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.
I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.
Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.
I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
The shelf life of a specific film has decreased while the number of films required to fill multiplex cinemas has increased.
Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
If I do the same thing each year, that feels like I am sat on a shelf, and mentally that wouldn't be wise.
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.
She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.
Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
Over the long haul, salespeople come and go, but having top-shelf management in place is the ultimate answer.
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.
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.
Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.
I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor.
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
As with many pop acts, your shelf life isn't that great, we peaked with our first album.
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.
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
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.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
You see this with fighters all the time, if you're not staying active, you're kinda put on the shelf a little bit.
The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.
You don't have to release everything you do. Some ideas need to just stay on the shelf.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
It's not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It's too easy.
After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.
