A Quote by John Mortimer

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

John Mortimer

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John Mortimer
English - Writer
April 21, 1923 - January 16, 2009

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

John Mortimer

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

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

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

I really focus on natural products, so I love using unrefined products instead of refined ones. I swap white rice for brown rice or quinoa. I use brown rice pasta instead of regular pasta, nut milk or oat milk instead of dairy milk, and coconut yogurt instead of cows' yoghurt, etc.

Ella Woodward

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

Drake

I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.

Imran Khan

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Graydon Carter

A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

Terry Pratchett

One of my 'Secrets of Adulthood' is: Somewhere, keep an empty shelf. I know where my empty shelf is, and I treasure it.

Gretchen Rubin

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

Armistead Maupin

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

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

Bill Callahan

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

Dwayne Johnson

One day I was in the movie world with its glamour and then when I looked at it realistically and realised my shelf life was over, I was out of it all, setting up office somewhere.