Quotes with shelf

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  • Calvin Trillin The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • John Mortimer The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Bob Newhart Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bill Gates Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
    The Wall Street Journal (29-12-2011)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Alan Alda It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Philip Larkin Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Ezra Pound People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Billy Bragg So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bella Freud Somehow, stars have a lot of class if they are done right; they never have a shelf life.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin 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
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Calvin Trillin The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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