Stale Quotes

167 quotes by 144 authors

Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to… — Nick Harkaway
Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living… — Charles Spurgeon
if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't… — Meindert DeJong
No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for… — Lauren Oliver
The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing. — Bruce Lee
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on… — Edith Wharton
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Once I start work on a project, I donâ€™t stop and I donâ€™t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I donâ€™t write every… — Stephen King
I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen… — James A. Baldwin
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. — Osbert Sitwell
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk… — Al Pacino
Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale. — Vince Lombardi
Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us… — Melissa Scott
I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale. — Evel Knievel
With comedy, the jokes will come out, and people will see them coming. Changes in daily life or current events can change the consciousness of… — Robert Lopez
There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe,… — Barack Obama
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In… — Cynthia Ozick

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