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

- Bruce Dickinson

Character actors have a long shelf life.

- Dennis Christopher

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

- Ezra Pound

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

- John McCarthy

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

- Kris Carr

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

- Patti Smith

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

- Richard Scarry

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

- Rashid Johnson

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

- Sarah Jessica Parker

You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

- Thomas Friedman

Polenta is one of those ingredients that in many homes spends its days at the back of the kitchen cupboard, on the 'no one knows quite what to do with it' shelf.

- Yotam Ottolenghi