Stale Quotes
Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.
With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.
Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.
I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.
We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.
We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for periods also keeps it from going stale.
Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.
After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little.
Is it a stale remark to say that I have constantly found the interest excited at a playhouse to bear an exact inverse proportion to the price paid for admission?
You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.
I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
I've been playing the bad guy in the last seven or eight projects I've done. I like it. It's a lot more interesting! Being the good guy gets a little stale after a while, you know?
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.
We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!
Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.
Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.
All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.
After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.
By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.
If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.
the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.
Every movie is a surprise. That's what is so fun about it. You can be planning a movie for years, and then you'd better be surprised every day, or it's going to be stale.
I don't know if you've read the Bible, and if you haven't, I think you may be in a better place than those of us who have read it so much that it has become stale.
I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.
Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.
Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.