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“To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.”

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Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.”

Men Should Wells Has Beens Done Poor Figures Pity Immortality Companion Shelves Essayists

Book:Views and reviews

Source: Views and reviews

“It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves, What matters most, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves.”

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Author:John Wooden

“If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.”

Ifs Shelves Long Life Shelf Life

Author:Kris Carr

“In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.”

Way Writing Art Hard Form Art Is Size Hard Times Length Feds Shelves Machinery Surviving Demeaning Shelf Life

Author:Alberto Manguel

“A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.”

Two Rooms Silence Minutes Months Drawing Magazines Dust Recognition Popularity Shelves Essays Novelty Columns Forthcoming

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves.”

Giving Shelves

Book:You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time

Source: You Can Never Go Wrong by Lying: And Other Solutions to the Moral and Social Dilemmas of Our Time

“My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.”

Littles Marriage Wife Dear Bones My Wife Damn Cheer Shelves All Alone Contention Damn Things

Book:Selected Poems, 1945-2005

Source: Selected Poems, 1945-2005

“A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.”

Men Looks Book Reading Waiting Answers Company Virtue Essence Tables Faults Forgotten Excellent Immortality Good Man Shelves Good Book Foibles Actual Life

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.”

Needs Firsts Mean Has Beens Running Fit Advantage Boxes Stores Access Data Devices Application Receiving Tape Shelves Storage Compression Offline Data Centers

Author:George Arthur Crump

“I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.”

Want Ends Action Proud Lows Scripts Video Budgets Vehicle Shelves Get Low

Author:Dean Cain

“The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.”

Done Life Is Flower Filled Photograph Locks Journal Shelves Feathers

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.”

Ifs Book Bigs Form Research Tasks Remains Library Shelves

Author:Nicholson Baker

“If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.”

Ifs Knows Needs Believe Fit Boxes Believe In God Shelves Corn Files Flakes Corn Flakes

Author:Mitch Albom

“My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?"”

World Two Book Father Week Arms Reader Library Locals Journalist Branches Take Me Engineers Shelves Two Weeks Stacking

Author:Janet Fitch

“Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.”

Thinking Firsts Looks Book Sometimes Home Behinds Picks Buying Shelves New Books

Author:Jennifer Carpenter

“I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.”

Idols Shelves Shelf Life

Author:Shaun Cassidy

“In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.”

Ifs Needs Years Firsts Wells Bigs Might Running Three Fronts Picks Nfl Contracts Three Years Shelves Signing Bonus Expectancy Running Back Shelf Life Life Expectancy

Author:Eric Dickerson

“What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.”

People Ifs Knows Want Long Stills Use Lasts Film Understanding Term Common Audience Know How Shelves Niche Usage Shelf Life

Author:Joe Dante

“If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.”

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Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter.”

Knows Mind Wells Ends Bigs Kids Easy Huge Sight Fruit Bowls Shelves Junk Drawers Easy To Get Junk Food Rotting Of Sight Out Of Mind

Author:Tyler Florence

“I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.”

Knows Needs Moving House Records Wall Heavy Collections Nightmare Architect Shelves Vinyl

Author:Frida Giannini

“You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.”

Firsts Two Relationship Bird Clouds Shelves Soar Cages Two Birds

Author:Carly Simon

“Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.”

Art Dream Media Critics Entertainment Shelves

Author:Garth Brooks

“God damn, it's a brand new payback From the straight gangsta mack in straight gangsta black How many motherfuckers gotta pay Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK Caps gotta get peeled Cause "The Nigga Ya Love to hate" still can "Kill at Will"”

Law Order Cop Shelves

Author:Ice Cube

“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.”

Kind Book Character Hollywood Scripts All Kinds Capture Shelves

Author:Michael Connelly

“You've only got a short shelf-life as an actor, and I want to make the most of it while I can.”

Want I Can Actors Shelves Shelf Life

Author:Sharon Horgan

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