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.
Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.
You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else.
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.
I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores are lined with shelves filled with self-help books. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media outlets turn our focus inwards, allowing us to fall more and more in love with ourselves, our thoughts, our opinions, our voices.
There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
It exasperated her sometimes. The way men could be so sure of themselves. They put words together like sheds or shelves and you could stand on them they were so solid. And those feelings which overwhelmed you in the small hours turned to smoke.
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?
. . . She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.
There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.
Matte or satin sheen scuffs up very easily. So, unless you have it professionally done, definitely paint shelves or cabinets with something with a higher sheen.
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.