Shelves Quotations

I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

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.

I got into writing to become a 'Star Trek' writer. I was a rabid fan. I had shelves and shelves and shelves of action figures in my bedroom that scared away more dates than I care to admit to.

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept.

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

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

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.

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'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.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.

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.

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

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?'

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

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.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf?

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

The plunge in inventory accumulation does suggest that firms are not confident enough to add merchandise to their shelves. But they will not be able to do this indefinitely because everyone knows that sporting empty shelves in a rising growth environment is not prudent.

World events may help the success of new patriotic products like Rescue Heroes from Fisher-Price. Yet retailers still see evergreen brands such as Mattel's Barbie and traditional LEGO leading the way off store shelves in the next few months.

We're ready to ship in the morning, ... It should be on the shelves at some pharmacies on Friday or Saturday and available virtually nationwide by the first of next week.

Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

We want to make sure we're only putting safe, quality products on our shelves for our customers.

Maine has effectively eliminated all household products that contain mercury from store shelves and the waste stream. Maine?s ?can-do? common sense approach is leading the nation in reducing the toxic mercury in our environment.

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.

Last year, quarterly mobile phone shipments didn't reach 200 million units until the end of the fourth quarter when vendors were keeping the channels' shelves stocked for the holiday rush. As vendors announced new products earlier this year and accelerated their time to market, we've already reached this milestone.

So let us build them shelves where They might fight among themselves and leave the people be who want to sing

Shortages like this are one of the effects of Apple keeping announcements quiet. Many companies will begin moving product through the channel before an announcement. Sometimes you'll even see Microsoft software on store shelves before it's announced.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

Nobody would be hurt more by (truckers) not being able to deliver the goods than the American public. And we, as the trucking industry, certainly don't want to leave the American shelves empty.

On the Hollywood studio side, they can dust off all this content that's been sitting on the shelves because no one was willing to offer it.

I am delighted that I can do my part to put quality books to the shelves of our local school libraries, ... Often times, school libraries are not provided with enough funding to renew book selections, so the Library of Congress program provides a real boost for these libraries, and helpes keep kids interested in reading.

Imagine going to the grocery store and watching 17 out of 20 customers shoplifting items from the shelves and walking out of the store without paying.

I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.

If a piece of furniture is top-heavy or unstable, fasten it to a wall using angle braces or anchors. Keep heavier items on lower shelves or in lower drawers.

He finds it very offensive, given his experiences living in Cuba, and so he's asked us to reconsider having it on the shelves in one of our elementary schools.

Here's what I'm doing right now as we speak. I'm building two more shelves for my records because they are all over the floor. I've got too many records and not enough shelves.

His view prevailed. The goods went back to the shelves and on they drove, empty-handed.

I also remember when I ran the assembly and packing and we were working with Nintendo. I remember assembling and packing those interactive units and the product that went in there as well. The product just started to fly off the shelves as people realized the incredible experience they could have with the games.

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

I take exotic woods and make funky furniture. One of my favorite pieces I'm showing this year is a ying-yang curio that's four-feet in diameter. The doors are in that (ying-yang) shape and there are two shelves that seem like they're floating and are the dots.

It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

Our business out there has been completely undermined. Our products have been taken off the shelves in 50,000 stores.

Retailers ordered extremely conservatively for the holiday season. The shelves aren't overly abundant with goods, and controlling inventories has finally made it into broad retailers, not just Wal-Mart. That's important because it means a lot of the early promotions we've seen have brought the consumers in, but has left less on the shelves with less selection.

Success here at E3 is essential to start the momentum for a game's sales. It tells retailers what to stock their shelves with for the next six to eight months, especially for the holiday season. And with revenues that now rival Hollywood, it's really do or die.

Success here at E3 is essential to start the momentum for a game's sales, ... It tells retailers what to stock their shelves with for the next six to eight months, especially for the holiday season. And with revenues that now rival Hollywood, it's really do or die.

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.

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.

When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months.

With the U.S. slowdown looking more real each day, the trade deficit may have passed its peak. The slowdown hadn't hit full force yet in October. U.S. consumers are still sucking in massive amounts of imports. The slowdown will be more clearly seen in November and December's figures. If imported goods start to pile up on retailers' shelves this holiday season, imports could drop off fast.

We are removing the game from our shelves as soon as possible, and will block purchases of the game at point-of-sale until that removal is complete.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Dead Babies can take care of themselves, dead Babies can´t take things off the shelf...

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

With 15-35 percent of the population becoming ill, we're not going to be able to be stocking our store shelves like we do now.

To me, roaming along the shelves of a used book store is like searching for seashells along the beach, ... Sometimes I leave the store with a full pail, other times I do not.

We are slowly moving back onto the shelves but we still have less than one tenth of the retailers we had before the boycott.

Wolf Awareness Week posters practically fly off the shelves of our service centers.

What they do is they locate the heat source right away so there's no delay in finding the source of the fire. With books, shelves and other devices in the way, they just followed the thermal image for the heat source and knew exactly where to go.

We are going to get products onto the shelves as soon as possible.

Be sure to carefully read the ingredients listing, especially if you suffer from food allergies or are trying to cut down on your trans fat intake. While many food manufacturers began making changes to their labels in 2005, stores are not under any obligation to remove products from their shelves that were packaged prior to these rules.

Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.

As the ice shelves are disintegrating, the glaciers that are feeding them from the land are surging forward.

At my first library job, I worked with a woman named Sheila Brownstein, who was The Reader's Advisor. She was a short, bosomy Englishwoman who accosted people at the shelves and asked if they wanted advice on what to read, and if the answer was yes, she asked what writers they already loved and then suggested somebody new.

E3 exhibitors tell us that almost 80 percent of the products that will be displayed at this year's show are expected to be on store shelves in time for the 2001 holiday season. So, if you want to know what the more than 60 percent of Americans who play computer and video games will be asking for this holiday season, you need to be at E3, the world's most important forum for the launch of interactive entertainment products and technologies.

There was a casting couch in his office. His office was all in white. Behind the desk were his Oscars, and they were spotlighted very dramatically. And next to them were a series of shelves containing French perfumes and nylon stockings. For services rendered.

The toy industry, in cooperation with the CPSC, does a good job of getting items off the store shelves in the event of a recall. But you'll still find a lot of recalled items at thrift stores.

I started with my buddies when I was in high school, ... We all had shelves of old beer cans.

After the first of the year, there will be a transition period during which consumers will still see packaged food on store shelves without the revised allergen labeling. However, these will gradually disappear, as the Department of Consumer Protection food inspectors actively monitor manufacturer compliance.

A farmer or an extension agent will be there talking about that particular animal and what products come from it and what it eats and how much it weighs. We're hoping the kids get a better appreciation for agriculture and that they realize there are actual local people behind the scenes working to stock the shelves of their grocery stores.

A little girl came up to me the other day and said, 'Do you live here?' ... I have a great staff that helps me run the place, but I really love being out on the floor, helping people stock shelves and talking to customers.

This is a special Scouting program that the boys can earn a patch for. We thought this was a good time to try and fill the shelves of the local pantries.

This food is imported almost entirely as canned or prepared food products. While there will be a cost to retailers who will be asked to withdraw the products from shelves and discard them, no retailer should be too badly affected.

A lot of the studios were scared that when you don't have a narrative, especially with these kinds of game show-type programs, that there might not be enough interest out there for people to buy it. But the assumption that people don't want to have them on their shelves is wrong. Just like there are fans of 'Charmed' and 'The OC,' they want to own every episode of 'Survivor.

This means retailers can get the stuff onto shelves soon, if everyone votes the right way tomorrow.

There were some fears it was being pulled off the shelves and this is not the case. There is a shortfall, but it is not just at the VA. All pharmacies are experiencing it.

This matter is not about the accuracy of pricing. It concerns individually marking items on shelves with hand-stamped pricing stickers. We operate 3,600 Wal-Mart stores carrying hundreds of items. We can make more than 5,000 price changes in one week. So we're constantly working to adjust our prices. However, I can't speculate on what happened in this instance.

Accessibility has been tough, and it has slowed getting parcels on the shelves for students.

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

For everybody who does what I do, you hope you have life beyond network television, and DVD provides that. It's television's equivalent of immortality: You get to stay on retail shelves and in home libraries.

It may have been no big thing for Sony to give Microsoft one holiday period on the shelves to itself. But you're going to be sorely testing that loyal hardcore audience if it goes to two.

Everyone recognizes direct and build-to-order is a more profitable business method as opposed to stocking your shelves and hoping the product moves off of them, but I don't believe that retail is going away either.

The bottles had a tripping device on them where the shelves would just literally topple over, and all of the wine and liquors would dump down into the sewer.

Supermarket shelves are empty. Zimbabwe has become hell on earth.

I've done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying.

The warming ocean comes underneath the ice shelves and melts them from the bottom, and warmer air from the top melts them from the top. So they're thinning and eventually they get to a point where they go poof!

The intent is not to fill the shelves completely, but to shelf books accurately to allow for growth. Any library should have 5-6 inches on each shelf.

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.

I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily.

If you leave it up to the person stocking the shelves at 2 a.m., at some point these stockers just give up and say they can't find the promotional displays. RFID can tell me where a display is, and whether a display has been put on the floor at all.

In the last 96 hours, we have shipped 440,000 sheets of plywood into the west coast of Florida, 30,000 generators, 1.2 million batteries and 150 truckloads of flashlights. Those are some of the items that are just flying off the shelves right now.