Shelving Quotes

#1. Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.

David Davis

#2. For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.

Francois Mitterrand

#3. I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

Frank Fairfield

#4. Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

Markus Zusak

#5. A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

Claudia Rankine

#6. Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Vanna Bonta

#7. I suddenly missed the curious shelving patterns of my room, those old planks from the barn groaning under the weight of the notebooks. Shelving is an intimate thing, like the fingerprint of a room.

Reif Larsen

#8. I don't have too many books, I have too little shelving.

Lauren DeStefano

#9. Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

Adrian Cadbury

#10. I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

Julie Christie

#11. These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

Ja Rule

#12. It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Deborah Meyler

#13. Make no mistake, the woman (Rosa) had a heart. She had a bigger one than people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving.

Marcus Zusak

#14. Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

Paul Acampora

#15. Open shelving may be fashionable, but a closed cabinet door is the best way to stop grease and dust collecting in the first place.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#16. I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

John Fuller

#17. Subject: You're totally picturing me naked right now
Missy,
So how about you and I head up to the stacks to do some "shelving"?

Chelsea M. Cameron

#18. We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Herman Melville

#19. We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#20. No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.

David Levithan

#21. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.

Kate Madison

#22. Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

John Naughton