Stale Quotes

167 Stale quotes by 144 unique authors

America's demographic shift was obvious to everyone in the 2010 Census - but Republicans stubbornly rejected math, facts, and polls to their electoral peril. While… — Christine Pelosi
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world. — Jerry Saltz
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting… — Jack Welch
Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You… — John Zorn
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about… — Susanna Kaysen
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some… — Nick Hornby
If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,… — Daphne du Maurier
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like… — Robert Bringhurst
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it… — Hugh Prather
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He… — Evelyn Waugh
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. — Nicholas Sparks
Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their… — Ray Bradbury
One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
True love, like any other strong and addicting drug, is boring — once the tale of encounter and discovery is told, kisses quickly grow stale… — Stephen King
Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry… — William Shakespeare
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

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