Stale Quotes

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We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

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 behind the times.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

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 his wanderings.

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 imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Running water never grows stale.

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 but for yourself.

The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.

Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.

If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.

If you don’t move, you get stale.

Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

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.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

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 own ungodly manufacture.

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 a man driven by that thought.

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

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 Where most she satisfies.

Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.