Shelves quotes
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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
-- Alan Alda -
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
-- Andre Heller -
...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
-- Barry Lyga -
The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.
-- Bernie Taupin -
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
-- Billy Collins -
Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.
-- Bob Goff -
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
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Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.
-- Chris Brogan -
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.
-- Colum McCann -
She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.
-- Derek Walcott -
Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.
-- Elisabeth Marbury -
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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.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
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.
-- Gail Carriger -
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
-- Henry Miller -
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You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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...
-- Italo Calvino -
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
-- James Cash Penney -
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?
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
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Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.
-- Jessie Ware -
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
-- John C. Maxwell -
If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.
-- Kris Carr -
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
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Potential has a shelf life.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.
-- Martin Lindstrom -
I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an autistic shelf-stacker.
-- Michael McIntyre -
I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.
-- Noah Baumbach -
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What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.
-- Patricia Marx -
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
-- Patti Smith -
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my significance and my confidence? What things make me really angry? Anger usually erupts when an idol gets knocked off the shelf.
-- Philip Graham Ryken -
I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
-- Randall Munroe -
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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
-- Renata Adler -
Everything in God's store is on the bottom shelf...you have to get on your knees to get it.
-- Robert Collier -
Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for -- a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy on your 'must-keep' shelf. Enjoy!
-- Robert E. Vardeman -
To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?
-- Sarah Jessica Parker -
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Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
-- Scott McNealy -
You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.
-- Sharon Horgan -
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
-- Shaun Cassidy -
At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.
-- Steve Coppell -
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Many store the Bible on their shelves; the best store it in their hearts.
-- T. B. Joshua -
Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.
-- Tom Hodgkinson -
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.
-- Walter Benjamin -
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The future has no shelf life
-- Warren G. Bennis -
Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.
-- William Wordsworth -
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.
-- Barbara Crampton -
You are a shelf of books without the pages.
-- Gabrielle Aplin -
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I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
-- Mackenzie Davis -
With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he`s got shelf life like I never would have guessed.
-- Melissa Harris-Perry
