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"All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." »Katherine Paterson
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"continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles." »George Mikes
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"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf." »Robert Bloch
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"There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life." »Frank Zappa
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"High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad." »Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
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"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives." »Calvin Trillin
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"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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