Sentences with phrase «dust on the bookshelf»

Because I loved the Bible more than my books about dinosaurs, it wasn't long before those books found themselves gathering dust on my bookshelf.

My wife gets very angry for the smallest of things, dust on the bookshelf for example.

Let's face it, you could go out and buy any book on psoriasis (you may have already) and all you're usually left with is a book that will likely spend the remainder of its life collecting dust on your bookshelf or jumping from garage sale to garage sale.

I feel like I'm the last person on the entire planet who hasn't read Beautiful Ruins, which has been collecting dust on my bookshelf for a year.

What I've seen over the years is that folks who use the information, succeed... those who let it collect dust on a bookshelf - don't.

I read it through with a growing sense of deja - vu and glanced at the 1976 Club of Rome predictions, gathering dust on my bookshelf.

Keynote presenters Donna Ah Chee, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress CEO, and John Paterson, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) executive director, discuss why health researchers need to support the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the need for ongoing funding for the Lowitja Institute, and how the findings of the Northern Territory Royal Commission into the abuse of children in detention must not just gather dust on the bookshelves, like so many before it.

If your house smells so fresh and clean then no one will notice a little dust on the bookshelf... trust me.

Not exact matches

If a company's crisis plan is a binder sitting on a bookshelf gathering dust, its greatest use will be in propping the door open as executives run from the building when a real crisis breaks.

«Sometimes they circulate and I lose track of them, but I think that is better than them sitting on my bookshelf gathering dust.»

If they are all rubbish as you claim then they will sit on the cyber bookshelf and gather bit dust without harming a soul.

If you have old books sitting on your bookshelf they attract dust mites.

From further back on the history bookshelf, I'll also be reading Timothy Egan's 2006 National Book Award - winning account of the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time.

Interview — My wife Darlene solves the mystery of the more than 250 mystery books that have been gathering dust for the past two years on the bookshelves of our bedroom here in Cambridge.

An experienced owner would be best, as this cat will always be turning on faucets, jumping to the tallest bookshelf, and clearing the dust from the top of cabinets if they aren't inside one.

Something about their interactive quality - they don't just sit there on a bookshelf, gathering dust.

As her camera focuses in on pores of skin, body hair and midriff tattoos, she reflects on Walter Benjamin's dictum that «to do without people is for photography the most impossible of renunciations,» and narrates her ensuing retreat from the human figure, until her «subjects constituted little more than the dust on [her] bookshelves or the view under the bed.»

More than eight years later, the dust on Justice O'Connor's report grows thick on Ministerial bookshelves in Ottawa.

If a company's crisis plan is a binder sitting on a bookshelf gathering dust, its greatest use will be in propping the door open as executives run from the building when a real crisis breaks.

They can collect dust in your closet, sit on your bookshelf, subtly showing off your intellect or you can sell them in hopes of making some of that money back.

On the other hand, it is also important to ensure cleanliness of bookshelves which involves dusting and arranging and rearranging books and resources in the library.

Responsibilities highlighted on example resumes in this field include shelving books, keeping bookshelves organized and properly alphabetized to ensure that patrons can quickly find the books they need, vacuuming floors, dusting windows, and assisting with summer reading programs.

«We will not sit on our hands and watch this report be put onto bookshelves to gather dust like so many other reports,» Paterson said.

And you know how you have some bookshelves that no one can really see the dust on?

You leaf through them once or twice and then put them on the bottom bookshelf to gather dust.