Shelf Quotes

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Properly sealed bottled water doesn't have a (limited) shelf life. There's nothing in it to spoil.

Even though I have my own copy here, I want to see what it looks like on the shelf.

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.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.

If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

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.

The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.

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

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.

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

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.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years.

I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

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