Stale Quotes

167 quotes by 147 authors

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. — John Dos Passos
Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,… — H. L. Mencken
Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize.… — Marilla Ricker
Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the former you have… — Joao Magueijo
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty. — Wernher von Braun
I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival — Gillian Flynn
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… — Sue Grafton
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. — Alex Van Halen
If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has… — Marie-Louise von Franz
Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back. — Ray Toro
Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus… — Phil Bredesen
Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. — David Berkowitz
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow… — David Berkowitz
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary… — Wyndham Lewis
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader… — George Orwell
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in… — Benjamin De Casseres
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan

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