Empty Shelf Quotes

#1. One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

Gretchen Rubin

#2. In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

Alberto Manguel

#3. There's an empty shelf here with your name and dates?"

"There is. And it was beginning to sound nice. But then I got called in to this meeting. An induction ceremony. Some crazy old man and his granddaughter." He stands, guides me up beside him. "And I don't regret it. Now, go home.

Victoria Schwab

#4. Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. Whatever you believe, you become.

Michael Jackson

#6. I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

John Berger

#8. Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Debra Messing

#9. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. He often heard that wisdom comes with age, and he waited, trusting that this wisdom would bring him what he most wanted; that ability to guide his memories and not fall into the traps that they often set for him.

Luis Sepulveda

#11. When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.

Howard Coble

#12. Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself
Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

LeCrae

#13. So what are you going to do with the pies?" Mum asked.
"My bike is getting fixed today it's kind of a payment, a little thank you."
"How very Dr Quinn Medicine Woman of you; sure they don't want to trade for eggs and chickens?" Dad laughed.

C.J. Duggan

#14. I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.

Ian Axel

#15. If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.

Michael Medved

#16. When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

Cesar Chavez

#17. There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

Isabel Paterson