74 Shelf Life Quotes

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Famous Shelf Life Quotes

The longer your food lasts, the shorter you will. — David Sinclair

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin

Enjoy life, it has an expiration date — Zayn Malik

Food intake correlates with lifespan. Reducing food intake can lengthen lives, as demonstrated by experiments on lab animals. — Peter Attia

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything. — Kristin Scott Thomas

The most important in any longevity recipe is TASTE. — Dan Buettner

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity. — David Sinclair

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it. — John Updike

Life is long if you know how to use it. — Seneca

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. — Avicenna

The flavor of life is on the edge. — Naval Ravikant

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess. — Harold S. Kushner

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James

Life is short, the art long. — Hippocrates

Short Shelf Life Quotes

  • The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker. — Paula Deen
  • Width of life is more important than length of life. — Avicenna
  • Life is short. Eat dessert first. — Jacques Torres
  • Seafood makes you live 10 years more. — Kevin Steele
  • The sweetness of food doesn’t last long, but the sweetness of good words do. — Thai Proverbs
  • Even when months and days are long, life is short. — Japanese Proverbs
  • Life's like a mayonnaise soda. — Lou Reed
  • Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. — Robert Orben
  • Life- ride it until the wheels fall off. — Martin Lawrence

Shelf Life Image Quotes

Shelf life quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Expiry Date Quotes

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date. — Madhuri Dixit

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. — J. K. Rowling

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today. — Gordon Strachan

Shelf life quote Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries. — Takeshi Kaneshiro

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More Shelf Life Quotes

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. — Frank Zappa

In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. — Alberto Manguel

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. — Bill Gates

Technology has the shelf life of a banana. — Scott Mcnealy

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life. — Bob Goff

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing. — Jim Rohn

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

With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he`s got shelf life like I never would have guessed. — Melissa Harris-Perry

Potential has a shelf life. — Margaret Atwood

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen — Roger Waters

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed. — Eric Dickerson

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others. — Jack Gantos

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life. — Robert Carlyle

Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short. — Jeff Ament

People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace. — Donald McCaig

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life. — Jessie Ware

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110] — Anne Lamott

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it. — Don Bluth

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date. — John C. Maxwell

In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly. — Nicholas Negroponte

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last. — Joe Dante

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life. — Shaun Cassidy

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started. — Yehuda Berg

The future has no shelf life — Warren G. Bennis

So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life. — Hunter S. Thompson

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. — John Mortimer

I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. — Bill Hicks

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. — Barbara Kingsolver

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones. — Chris Brogan

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

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

In wrestling, there's a shelf life, and some wrestlers don't pay attention to the shelf life. — Dwayne Johnson

You never know what your work is going to do, man, so really, you shouldn't worry about it. But pop stars have to worry about it, because that's their commerce. If you're not number one or selling units, you're not going to be able to make a record next year. For us, it's more like an indie-rock attitude. Put it out, work it, and see what happens. It'll have a shelf life. — Ishmael Butler

There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in. — Bob Goff

It's nice to always have a job and not be floating out in the ether waiting for whatever the next big thing is. So, in that way I hope there's no a shelf-life for great shows. On the other hand, you don't want to be working on something that's reached its peak and become irrelevant. — Mary Elizabeth Ellis

I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much. — Mackenzie Davis

We are silent, considering shortfalls. There's not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it's not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life. — Margaret Atwood

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can. — Jennifer Lawrence

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things. — PJ Harvey

The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year. — Deepak Chopra

As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt. — Calvin Trillin

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