I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'.… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of… — David Berkowitz Copy Share Image
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest… — Tony La Russa Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but… — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
In many ways, I have no idea what would have become of me if punk hadn't happened, because the '70s turned out… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
