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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 best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.
Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.
I imagine I'm a very unusual guy to date. You know, I've got toys on the shelves, and I've got the cars.
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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.
With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he`s got shelf life like I never would have guessed.
I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.
The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.
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.
I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better.
A lot of multinationals have long, drawn-out processes and are pretty useless at putting products on the shelves quickly.
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
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.
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!
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.
I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like what's on the shelves.
I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
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.
I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.
Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.
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.
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.
Trump stood up to the failed Biden trade doctrine that filled our shelves with Chinese goods and loaded our ships with American jobs headed overseas.
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they do, I tend to take them off.
I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.
Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
You do not need to be within the single market to be able to export to the European Union, as we see from the wide range of goods on our shelves every day.
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.
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.
The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.
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?
When similar products are on store shelves, price competition is inevitable. Nintendo has been trying to steer clear of that direction and create a market of our own.
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
'Youngblood' #1 was my first brush with Internet bashing. Message boards were just emerging, but the criticism was drowned out by millions of copies flying off shelves.
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a Beethoven symphony, never hears it again.