By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the… — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be an American, no matter what. But Amercian culture is stale, you know wha I'm saying ? We keep… — Nas Copy Share Image
Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least… — Melissa Scott Copy Share Image
After awhile, marriage gets a little stale and you're looking for something to scratch that a little. — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
