Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.
Live fast, die young.
In this business, you can come and go in a second.
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.
Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
Sports happen in dog years.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
I want to live fast and die young.
Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That's a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn't want to wait around to enjoy the money.
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history.
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.
Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.
A lot of sitcoms don't last more than four series. You could say it's mystic.
I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn't imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just because I didn't know that many men who had lived beyond their 20s.
As a tennis player, or any professional athlete, our career has a shelf life. I don't want to waste any opportunities, I don't want to look back on it when I'm 45 and think I could have done a lot more.
The Raspberries were together two years for one century. It was a very successful failure of a group.
