Hugh Grant
Actor
"There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us."
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Shelves
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"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?"
Jimi Hendrix
Musician, Guitarist
"You got me sitting on the shelf, while you're out bewitching someone else."
James Cash Penney
Businessman
"The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them."
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"I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf."
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"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."
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"My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing."
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"God in the safe and Ford on the shelves."
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"Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."
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"You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life."
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"I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf"
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"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."
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"Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering."
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"What can you give a friend who has everything? Shelves."
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"Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves."
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"My greatness does not extend to this shelf."
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"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."
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"She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her."
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"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."
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