shelf-life quotes

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

- Michael Ignatieff
  'Is Nothing Sacred?  The Ethics of  Television', in Daedalus: Journal of the American  Academy of  Arts and Sciences, Fall.

A shelf life somewhere between butter and yoghurt.

- Calvin Marshall Trillin
  On the plethora of new book titles. In the NewYorkTimes, 14 Jun.