Stale Quotes

167 Stale quotes by 144 unique authors

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
The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you will become stale. If you give away everything you have, you… — Paul Arden
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. — Unknown Author
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying… — Johnny Thunders
And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the… — Ezra Pound
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh… — Sam Keen
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because… — Queen Rania of Jordan
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in… — Muhammad Asad
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton
We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years. — Benjamin Franklin

Who Wrote These Stale Quotes

144 authors contributed a total of 167 Stale Quotes, led by these top contributors: