Top 328 Shelves Quotes & Sayings

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.

Always reconfigure your shelves to make them work for you.

What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

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

I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.

Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves.

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

I liked getting up at 4 in the morning, driving on the freeway, and going in and stocking shelves and laughing with the stock clerks.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great... And we'd love some shelves over there.

The joke may be that no one likes fruitcake, but if that were the case, they wouldn't appear on store shelves every holiday season!

If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen to the news on the way to school. Or the fact that it's shown on the news, the children can see Gaddafi's face and his glorious Technicolor clothes getting shot off on the news or on the newspaper shelves. In the shelves of the shops where all the sex magazines are consciously put at the top, if they're consciously put at the top, that must mean the violence is all put at the bottom consciously.

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

I never settled because I wasn't meant to pack toilet rolls or stack shelves.

Our shelves are groaning with the amount of cookbooks, it's scary.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.

Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm...I wonder what is more damaging?

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.

Here is a biblical and churchly spirituality so needed today as an alternative to the new age nostrums that crowd the mall bookstore shelves.

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

It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.

I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones.

Before my son was even born, he already had two shelves of books.

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

3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.

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

Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond.