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I`d never heard of the "Lord of the Rings", actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, "Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?"

- Sean Astin

It`s all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now - my good Lord - look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.

- Paul Newman

Gummi tarantulas and spiders are flying off the shelves, ... abduct your tastebuds.

- Chris Pratt

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

- Gilbert Highet

In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be found on the shelves in supermarkets. From a marketing point of view, we have moved ahead of the competition over the past couple of years, and we intend to do everything to keep that position.

- Lars Frederiksen

For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren`t flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything`s on the upswing for us.

- Jacoby Shaddix

The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there.

- Gene Nelson

(On the main drag, painters and drawers will be found, but exotic wood sculptors will also pull in a crowd.) 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.

- Scott Clark

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.

- Scott Clark

One of the biggest problems we have in cleaning our homes is getting to the high spots like ceiling fans, plant shelves, air-conditioning units and vents.

- Karen Wilson

I was reading People Magazine, and they were talking about it and how stores can`t keep it on the shelves. It`s a healthy alternative to the sun, and I wanted to try it.

- Deborah Moore

We`ve got sales stuff up at the front of the store that`s just kind of flying. We`ve got sales stuff in the middle of the store that`s just going. We got a whole bunch of new Star Wars stuff, all kinds of new games, and it`s just flying off the shelves.

- Mark Peterson

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

- Andrea Dworkin

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves '“ but what the teachers are themselves.

- Rudyard Kipling